At a time when America seems determined to simultaneously lower the bar as to what is acceptable behaviour while raising the bar as to accountability for what little remains unacceptable, it is perhaps no surprise that those sneaky folk in the Vatican have taken this opportunity to announce that the Inquisition "wasn't really all that bad" (Harper's Weekly Review, link at right): which, even if it is in absolute terms a pretty unsupportable proposition, is, today, in relative terms probably about right. See? It isn't just the Russians and the Israelis (and quite a few others besides) who are using this "War on Terror" as a Trojan horse for their own dark deeds. Oh the times we live in.
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