Dear Mr. Law-Abiding President,

It has taken you five years to remember that you promised to close the Guantanamo concentration camp and torture facility.  And you still won't close it.  The Nazis had about the same amount of time to close their camps--and we tried them at Nuremberg for what they did.  Will you and yours be willing to go there?  It is now restored, and ready for you.

The Athenians of the 5th century B.C. believed in "might makes right."  They were forced, in defeat,  to tear down their city walls.  The Roman empire collapsed.  The British empire--determinedly arrogant to the bitter end--no longer exists, except in Northern Ireland and in the minds of stupid Tories.

The United States is bankrupt financially and morally.  Like North Korea--the only other fourth-world country on earth--it threatens the rest of the world with brutal suicide.  In this, the US--and North Korea--are unlike their predecessors:  Athens, Rome, the Brits, the Nazis weren't capable of  setting off or causing complete world  destruction.  The United States and North Korea are both capable of such.

And you, Mr. Obama, preach..  Preach what?  Patience?  Let the US continue its criminally inhumane acts until it is ready to play at civilization?

SHIT!  The US fought Nazi Germany, while hating its own Jews.  After the US-managed Nuremberg Trials, the US still had--for another ten yeats-- racist laws that denied black Americans basic human rights.  The US accused the Japanese of atrocities, while busily inoculating black prison inmates in Georgia with syphilis in trying to develop a syphilis-weapon.  The US dropped not one but two nuclear bombs on Japanese civilians:  on cities, not military targets.  And it fire-bombed Dresden.

(One of my former friends keeps reminding me of the Marshall Plan, and Chiquita Banana with her "message grave/about a million children that we want to save."  But that was sixty years ago--and after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden.)

As president, Mr. Obama, you could close your multiply-illegal concentration camp and torture facility at Guantanamo.  You could do it today--or tomorrow.  You need only issue the order.  You could also apologise for five years of illegal, immoral torture.  You could ask for forgiveness, from the men you have tortured and illegally imprisoned, from the civilized world you have affronted, from the decent US citizens whom you have betrayed.  And maybe then you could resign, and thereby perhaps redeem yourself--partially--from your disgrace.

 Maybe you could offer, in your self-defense, that the US has never actually apologized for the enslavement of your ancestors.  But that excuse won't excuse your own crime:  your crime against humanity.