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The Issue Of Torture, Connected To American Soldiers, Is Not Somewhere Most People Want To Linger. We May Not Want To Confront This Issue So Much In The U.s. Because Of How We Want To Think About Our Veterans. There's The Sense That We Want To Think Of Our Veterans As - If They're Damaged, Damaged By Something Glamorous, Like A Firefight.

We Know That People We Love Are Both Good And Bad, But We Expect Strangers To Be One Or The Other.

We Are Not Buried In History, But Surrounded By It. You Can't Avoid Our Behavior Being Shaped By It, To A Considerable Degree. We Have This Fantasy That We Are Free Of History. This Allows Us Not To See The Circumstances, The Historical Circumstances Of Other People.

Luck Can't Last A Lifetime Unless You Die Young.

And Out Of A Desire Essentially To Imitate What I Was Reading, I Began To Write, Like A Clever Monkey.