America has lost its capacity for being indignant, ... Where has our capacity for indignation gone When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured -- and we can't go to his rescue -- will show us exactly what we have done.
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