Bankrupt Nation

The huff and puff of finding, naming and persecuting the source of the leaked diplomatic cables misses the point by many a mile. We simply cannot live by dual standards, a private life separate from and to a public life. They are simply the one and the same, cross feeding and influencing one to the other. What you say and think in private must be no different to what you say in public. Otherwise you are living a lie that always has and will come out. This is a lifestyle of a high calibre that requires integrity and high moral standards.

Nations, and big corporations if it comes to that, are but people except that their characteristics are hugely simplified, coalesced to the centre middle ground and losing all subtly and nuances along the way. The bigger the Nation, or corporation, the less subtly and the grosser the reactions and responses. That is just how it is. A Nation that positions itself as of world class and claims to lead the world, must, to justify those claims, set itself to exceed the highest of standards and exhibit the conduct of an exemplary citizen. Not on occasional high profile events but in its every day in day out mundane conduct.

To even attempt to justify water-boarding is intolerable. It is self-evidently beyond any acceptable code of conduct to contemplate let alone implement such actions on another human being. There are no justification. Period. Any more than there are not any justification whatever for assuming rights to seize and lock up persons of the world, deprive them of all decency, humane care, deny them a trial, refuse to specify the laws by which they are held against their wishes so others may challenge, and continue to do so for multiple years. Not just an interim short period whilst a collective view is taken, no consigned to a limbo beyond reach.

Utterly, totally deplorable. These are the actions of a bankrupt nation. One that has lost its integrity, lost any sense of values and without a single moral fibre left, bereft and clueless. So the news that it holds views in private that it tries to conceal from the world whilst pretending to promote some other false vision comes as no shock or surprise. The only surprise is that any other Nations cares. A bankrupt is down and out and any pleadings not worth a moments notice.