"The correct role of the government is to do everything possible to make our financial sector as healthy as possible. That requires appropriate regulation and oversight, but it most certainly does NOT include LAMENTING PROFITABILITY."

-- wgsalter

If I "obtained" billions of dollars of US taxpayer money by having congress loot the US Treasury for me, can I count on you to congratulate me for my hard work and not be one of those naysayers who "lament profitability?"

I’m deeply confused about the need for a John Demjanjuk trial. Even if he was involved in enhanced interrogation of prisoners, that was over 60 years ago! Why is no one in Washington speaking out about the need to look forward?

"The naivete on this site is nothing short of astounding, sometimes."

I was just going to say how naive and clueless you are, and then to see you chastise others for their "naivete" is priceless.

There isn't a regular poster on this board "surprised" by Pres. Obama's action other than you. To broadcast your cluelessness to the world seems more like you've just awoken to a startingly revelation and you need to feel others share in your naivete.

You're in the wrong room. Being-Hit-on-the-Head lessons are down the hall.

If a state is unable or unwilling to prosecute itself for its crimes, isn’t it incumbent on the larger world community, at some point, to take action, as happened after WWII? Since the US has no interest in prosecuting itself for it’s blatant and egregious war crimes, are there any countries actively demanding justice?

I give Obama a few more months before he starts putting on soldier costumes and prancing around like George 'Tommy Tune' Bush.

In what respect, Charlie?

"Are we to take your word on it, Mr. Greenwald, that we've been detaining Uighurs in Guantanomo simply because they're Muslim? Somehow I suspect there's more to the story."

-- -- MJMC

Absolutely. I have it on very good authority that they hate us for our freedom.

Eric Rudolph, Timothy McVeigh, the Doctor assassins, etc., may have been Christian terrorists, but we NEVER judge an entire group by the actions of a few bad apples!!

"This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile."

- George W Bush

"if you don’t propose any new ideas as to what to do with the terrorists in the future, but, instead, keep saying the same things day after day, your writing might eventually fit the classical definition of insanity.”

-- Calif Mike

I would think insanity is mindlessly giving consideration to incontrovertible evil just because people on TV and in newspapers are on board with it.

It's the same as saying, "Glenn rails against the systematic burning of people's faces off with blow-torches, yet never offers any serious alternatives"

How did America ever get through the much, much, MUCH bigger threats to this nation than Saudi thugs and not crumble under the weight of the sheer cowardice we've seen in America over the last 8 years.

Apparently, your ancestors enjoyed passing the buck with the flight of their arrows.

Instead of looking to Mr Greenwald to lead you out of the darkness, it's time for YOU to come out and expose those who would destroy your world. YOU have within YOU the power to be on the right track of history! YOU should not leave it up to others to do YOUR work. The time is now for YOU - Bustin Urbals - to get off YOUR ass and not pass the buck onto others.

The hour is nigh! Run ... run, I say!

"when liberals choose to pursue diplomacy over military action, it's because the men have been neutered and feminized by a movement of penis envying/hating harpies."

- frankly0

Hahahahahaha! The sad thing is this guy is serious! A guy who no doubt reveres rightwing "heroes" like John Wayne (part of the incredibly small minority of able-bodied men 70 years ago who got out of serving in WWII because of sheer cowardice), George W Bush (rich enough to dodge the draft and hide behind his mommy's apron), Dick Cheney (a gutless coward who dodged the draft but supported the Viet Nam war), Rush Limbaugh (another gutless coward who dodged the draft but supported the Viet Nam war), and on and on.

You can count on one hand the number of rightwingers who aren't -- by their own statements of being openly terrified since 9.11 -- pussies.

Only cowards support torture, because only cowards know there is never any chance of them being in "harms way". And doesn't that pretty much define the GOP?

"When you stick your hand into a pile of goo that was once your best friend's face (or a box of popcorn, either one), you'll understand what it takes to be a man!"

his wife probably tells him to play outside.

Biff! Bam! Kapowie!

It’s hard to imagine how US schools plan on teaching history going forward. If they try to teach students about how Japan tortured people during WW II, and when the exact same techniques were used by the Bush administration they're called “enhanced interrogation”, wouldn’t ANY student with an ounce of curiosity ask what the hell is the difference? Is the plan to just drop ALL discussions of torture committed throughout history, because to do otherwise would anger the shock jocks and extremists on radio & TV? It seems much more likely that the GOP is going to go the way of the Whig Party and disappear over the next decade or so. Making endless accommodations to their moral bankruptcy is going to stretch credulity like a rubber band until it snaps.

”But they issued "no overarching statement" on the issue? What does that even mean? What’s an "overarching statement"?”

--Glenn Greenwald

She’s probably using the Lucy Van Pelt argument:

"Has it every been on a bubblegum card? Hmmmmmmm? How can you say it’s an overarching statement if it’s never been on a bubblegum card?"