If there was no insatiable appetite for narcotics in America, there would be no murderous drug cartels in Mexico. If pornography was not a multibillion-dollar industry, young people’s minds would not be full of distortion. If we did not put our prisons out of sight, out of mind, there would not be so much potential for inmates coming out worse than when they went in. If we had not abandoned our American standards out of fear, the CIA would not have created “dark sites” for torture.12 And so on and so forth. Americans are complicit in many evils.
