President Obama deserves the world's thanks and congratulations for his wonderful speech in Cairo. I only hope that now he will make that same speech to Americans.
And in addition to SAYING to people in the United States exactly what he said to the rest of the world in Cairo, he must act up to what he says. He must stop claiming "national security" to interfere with the process of law and the achievement of justice in the United States. He must agree to fight terror at home as well as abroad: and torturers--war-criminals--are terrorists. Protected by a president, they become state terrorists, and the US becomes a terrorist state.
President Obama knows that. Is he so afraid of the American people that he can't say to us what he says to the Muslim world? To the whole world, listening?
Surely not. He is the elected president of the United States, and he is responsible both to the American people and to the world to stand up for what he says. His words must be followed up--now, not next year or the year after--by action.
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