George Bush has now proudly joined the absurd Defense of Torture. If torture gets "results," there is nothing wrong with it. That's the Bush-Cheney-Right Wing argument.
Obama's argument is a bit different: torture was torture, but now that it's been done, we should forget about it. If we blame anybody, that will cause hard feelings. And though our military proudly took photos of themselves torturing people, and kept those photos in Pentagon files, nobody should look at them. People might get angry at us if they see those images.
The Uniform Code of Military Justice makes "misprision of a felony" a crime. In civil law, hiding criminals is a crime; one can be an "accessory after the fact" of a crime. General Petraeus and his cronies should be charged under the UCMJ. And Bush and Company should be charged in U. S. civil courts, both with their crimes and with their long cover-up of those crimes. And if Obama keeps trying to hide what we did, maybe he should be charged as well.
Justice requires that we face the facts of what we did. The whole world has a right to demand that of us. Might doesn't make right. As things now stand, the United States is a rogue nation. We must change that. We must be just--even among ourselves. We can't adjust the truth to suit our cowardly convenience.
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