I'll have to admit to being self-centered when it comes to this issue. The U.S. has always done exactly what it wanted in the Western Hemisphere and has made often superficial excuses to justify its actions. I've always been appalled by that. What scares me now is more a domestic issue.

No more excuses. No more pretending. Why? Does this president feel so immune, so powerful that he can do anything he wants without moral justification? He has no concern about how this will register in U.S. opinion. Has no concern about being called to account by Congress or the courts. That is a really scary new thing for me, for my country. It implies a president with unlimited power. That may always have been true abroad, but now it's home, it's here.

That is really, really scary.