casablanca screenplay breakdown - Vist to death

Bon, oui, voilà ...
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOGXZlvOTKw

... mais j’estime que vu de la perspective du sénat c’est plutôt comme dans ce film ...
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5lU52aWTJo

Torture report highlights consequences of permanent war
▻http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/12/09/torture-report-highlights-consequences-permanent-war/MdEpEx2ilVexZuECsJ88TN/story.html

Critics will accuse Feinstein of endangering the nation’s safety, soiling its reputation, hanging out to dry patriotic agents doing what needed doing in our name. This is all nonsense. Her actual failing is far worse. She and her colleagues are doing what the state always does for itself in these situations: administering a little public slap on the hand, after which an ever-so-quiet return to business as usual will ensue.

War is the health of the state. Headline-grabbing scandals involving the national security apparatus come and go. Today’s is just one more in a long series extending back decades. As long as the individuals and entities comprising that apparatus persist in their commitment to permanent war, little of substance will change.