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The NYT Editorial today echoed much of what Glenn said yesterday, except that it's only solution was that we, the voters, should do better next time we pick a president. Here is my response:
To the Editor,
After a litany of abuses by the Bush administration that would cause any American to hang their head in shame at their country, your solution is to wish that the voters will do a better job of picking a president in 2008. Is this not impunity for the upper cut? You wished censure on Bill Clinton for far, far less. Many of the observations you made were about criminal acts, some about war crimes. Do we say that our leaders are not above the law, and then fail to prosecute them? I guess in an age when the public editor finds the use of the word 'liar' uncivilized, arrest, prosecution, and punishment for the criminal acts of the people above the salt is --uncouth?
I remind you that our nation signed and ratified a treaty that *requires* that the punishment for torture be severe. If you believe our nation's leaders are guilty of implementing torture, and you do not believe they should be tried and punished, you don't believe in the rule of law -- and it will take much more than savvy voters to correct that flaw.
