This whole "looking forward" meme is one that I hold with contempt. It should be obvious to anyone mature enough to realize (without any pretense) that one cannot truly "look forward" without reconciling the past. It is a sham, otherwise. That is, the past will inevitably haunt you in more ways than you can even fathom. Great Shakespearean plays have been written about this, for goodness sakes! Have we not learned anything in the span of a few hundred years?!
Anyhow, I want to put a 'face' to this "looking forward" meme. I want my fellow Kossaks that peddle this snake-oil to try to personalize this war crime a bit more. I don't know, maybe that will help them "see the light". Who knows? It's worth a try.
I wrote a recommended diary here a few years ago when extraodinary rendition by the Bush administration was first being discovered. I now present this diary once again. It is a story about an innocent fellow Canadian that fell victim to these war crimes...
...IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL...
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