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I once interviewed a retired B-52 driver who said that, at the depth of the cold war, Strategic Air Command pilots took comfort in knowing that if they ever received the "go-codes" they could be certain of one thing — their country had been horribly damaged by an attack. "Because we knew," he said, "that the United States would never start a war. We knew we always had the moral high ground."
Mr. Greenwald's excellent post today — and his consistently good work over the past few years — have revealed time and time again that this country, under its current leadership, has abandoned its moral standing in the world. We start wars now. We torture people. We suspend the rule of law. We do all the terrible things we once accused the Soviet Union of doing years ago when it would snatch people off the streets and hold them in gulags without contact with the outside world.
We have, on many fronts, become bad guys. Good guys don't do what Mr. Greenwald's article chronicles. Good guys don't do what Gen. Anthony Taguba documented in his report on the Abu Graib prison, which was reported in this week's New Yorker magazine by Sy Hersh.
We have to become the good guys again. And with the likes of Glenn Greenwald, Hersh and others shining light on this darkness, perhaps we will.
