When lawyers at the highest levels of government twist, obscure and ignore legal principles to reach the conclusions they want, when a legal analysis of detainee treatment is focused not on the prohibition against torture in both the United Nations Convention Against Torture and America's own domestic statutes , but on finding legal justification for inflicting the maximum mental and physical pain, a nation is well on the way to losing its soul.That makes us the Undead. And it explains the glut of zombies and vampires in popular culture.
Though frankly, nations don't have "souls," only ideals that they fail to adhere to and eventually slough off as unattainable and/or silly on the way to becoming, well, the word(s) that should be here would probably translate as "lacking in honor" or "decadent," and I tend to dislike the connotations of both honor and decadence. The U. S. may well be the current analog of the Roman Empire, but it's also the barbarians.
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