If, Dear Gentle Reader(s), you are one of those who is divided about whether or not the justice system of The United States should initiate and pursue possible war crimes of some previous administration personnel, then hie thee to Paul Krugman’s piece in today’s The New York Times. It should go a long way toward helping your make up your mind.
Krugman falls definitely on the side of justice moving forward.
…America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past, our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals. But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for. “This government does not torture people,” declared former President Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it.
In the name of our “moral ideals,” the investigation of the previous administration’s activities must be allowed to go forward. We owe it to ourselves, to our history, and to our future.
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