That our dignitaries are so compelled to visit other countries and openly oppose the indictment of security and surveillance policies speaks to the increasing inefficacy of the all-tactics-are-acceptable-for-the-sake-of-security discourse.
Even here, Afghanistan is referenced as reason for overweening and nearly unchecked and clandestine inspection of millions of people. Unfortunately, it took years of battle and thousands of lives for this to become the case.
Perhaps rhetoric and logic could've transported us to here far sooner: before the contradictions themselves had to be turned into what would endanger the lives of people who live inside and outside of the United States.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/18/headlines#12185
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