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You make good points. The main thing to me is that the new administration has quickly come out and made efforts to turn some of the worst things the Bush administration did in these regards around. Strong & clear statements saying America will no longer torture anyone and setting the time line to close Gitmo does help us to regain some of our lost moral high ground.The problems with going after so many people involved is complex though. Once the President says something is OK it sets up a lot of cover for those who can say they went to the top and were given absolute permission.And while it's true we prosecuted Nazi officers for "just following orders" saying that was no legal excuse for human rights abuses... the water here has been severely muddied up by the previous official Bush/Cheney policy.And with all the other Bush messes President Obama is also left trying to turn around our new President seems reluctant to go directly at and prosecute the prior President & Vice President of the United States of America.And if you don't do that... then it seems somewhat wrong to prosecute the underlings who will say they were just following orders.It may end up that worldwide embarrassment & a certain type of shame put onto the Bush administration and the Republican Party will be all that really will happen... but a political cost is at least... something![media=youtube]SCUydXTFgNQ[/media]
You make good points.
The main thing to me is that the new administration has quickly come out and made efforts to turn some of the worst things the Bush administration did in these regards around. Strong & clear statements saying America will no longer torture anyone and setting the time line to close Gitmo does help us to regain some of our lost moral high ground.
The problems with going after so many people involved is complex though. Once the President says something is OK it sets up a lot of cover for those who can say they went to the top and were given absolute permission.
And while it's true we prosecuted Nazi officers for "just following orders" saying that was no legal excuse for human rights abuses... the water here has been severely muddied up by the previous official Bush/Cheney policy.
And with all the other Bush messes President Obama is also left trying to turn around our new President seems reluctant to go directly at and prosecute the prior President & Vice President of the United States of America.
And if you don't do that... then it seems somewhat wrong to prosecute the underlings who will say they were just following orders.
It may end up that worldwide embarrassment & a certain type of shame put onto the Bush administration and the Republican Party will be all that really will happen... but a political cost is at least... something!
[media=youtube]SCUydXTFgNQ[/media]
