“Looking at America”
Brilliant editorial in today’s NY Times:
The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were let go without any apology or hope of redress.
These are not the only shocking abuses of President Bush’s two terms in office, made in the name of fighting terrorism. There is much more — so much that the next president will have a full agenda simply discovering all the wrongs that have been done and then righting them.
We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America.
Go read the whole thing.
December 31st, 2007 at 10:53 am
Good editorial, with the exception that waterboarding isn’t “simulated drowning.” The victim is, in fact, drowning and can die. We may never know how many did die.
I’ve been watching for the moment the media all say that America has scandal fatigue and Bush’s crimes are old news, time to look to the future. The NYT isn’t there yet, good for them.