Thomas Scott (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thomascott) wrote,@ 2009-04-19 13:51:00 |
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Is protection of torturers an advocacy of torture?
The European liberal left's teary-eyed love-in with the Obama administration may need some emotional adjustment.
Sure, after the Bush regime, Obama did seem - and to a point continues to seem - like a breath of fresh air.
The point however is, at this juncture, rhetoric is not equating with policy and with the sound of the dizzy, post-election fanfare fading into the background, there is a sense of business as usual.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/pol
More disturbing however, is Obama's intention to shield CIA operatives who imprisoned supposed terrorists without trial, flouted the Geneva Convention and practised torture on (considering they had not been tried under due legal process) effectively innocent civilians.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a
Hardly the policy of a president seeking to implement real change or address the hideous injustices of his predecessor's tenure, is it?
The European liberal left's teary-eyed love-in with the Obama administration may need some emotional adjustment.
Sure, after the Bush regime, Obama did seem - and to a point continues to seem - like a breath of fresh air.
The point however is, at this juncture, rhetoric is not equating with policy and with the sound of the dizzy, post-election fanfare fading into the background, there is a sense of business as usual.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/us/pol
More disturbing however, is Obama's intention to shield CIA operatives who imprisoned supposed terrorists without trial, flouted the Geneva Convention and practised torture on (considering they had not been tried under due legal process) effectively innocent civilians.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a
Hardly the policy of a president seeking to implement real change or address the hideous injustices of his predecessor's tenure, is it?
