« Tuesday QT | Main | How 'Bout That Surge? »

What He Said

The Rude One opines:

While, like so many reports and investigations do these days, this only confirms what we already knew, we now can say that, in our American name, innocent people were held in cells, separated from their families, lives, and communities, interrogated, often being beaten and tortured, and they had no legitimate way of saying, "Yo, not a killer over here."

When conservatives go ballistic over last week's Supreme Court decision saying that detainees actually can challenge their detention, when John McCain calls it "one of the worst decisions in history," they are saying that America should not be any better than its enemies, that innocence is a technicality, and that the powerless deserve their fates.

It's hard being the good guys.  We should try harder.

Post a comment

(Your comment will be published if it resembles anything approaching sanity. Or not. Thanks for commenting in either case. ~Earl)