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Perfect Crimes

Following up on her strong posts I mentioned last Saturday, Jeanne D'Orleans wrote a fascinating essay yesterday on The Doctrine of American Infallibility, comparing the various "we are perfect, and therefore the blame lies everywhere other than with us" excuses for US forces having killed all those Afghani children this past week with the sorts of excuses the Catholic Church has used over the years to explain away institutionalized anti-Semitism, sexism and the like. Really nice work, Jeanne.