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The best way to frame the debate for repukes is to put it in terms their reptilian brains can understand. They're upset about Obama "apologizing" for America. They repeat the "American Exceptionalism" canards all the time, saying things like "we need a President that believes America is the 'shining city on the hill'" and other such nationalistic claptrap.
I say... let's agree with them.
America is better than the WWII Japanese, we don't do "Bataan death marches".
America is better than the Viet-cong, we don't set up "Hanoi Hiltons".
America is better than Nazi Germany, we don't set up concentration camps and torture and kill those in them.
America is better than the muslim extremists, we don't capture and behead journalists just because they represent the other side.
It is precisely because we, as a nation, strive to be better that causes us to be outraged when we don't live up to the high bars we set for ourselves.
So... repukes... since you believe that America is inherently "better" than other nations because we've set up a better model for society... one where liberty is the cornerstone... then you too should be outraged when our leaders fail to live up to our high ideals.
On 9/12/2001, America had the moral high ground in the battle with muslim extremists.
In the seven years that followed, our leaders ceded that moral high ground by setting up our very own "Hanoi Hilton" at the southwestern edge of the island of Cuba.
"We're better than them"... or so you repukes say all the time.
Prove it.
Let's truly be better than them.
We're Americans. We don't torture.
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