Luxagraf

It’s not often that I agree with the op/eds from the New York Times, but this one is right on. This exactly why I’m embarrassed to be an American right now. If you think the dollar is at an all time low, you out to see where our moral stock is with the rest of the world. It’s time to stop lowering and bar, it’s pretty much on the ground anyway. That’s my one form of hope: at least it can’t get much worse.

Once upon a time, it was the United States that urged all nations to obey the letter and the spirit of international treaties and protect human rights and liberties. American leaders denounced secret prisons where people were held without charges, tortured and killed. And the people in much of the world, if not their governments, respected the United States for its values.

The Bush administration has dishonored that history and squandered that respect. As an article on this newspaper’s front page last week laid out in disturbing detail, President Bush and his aides have not only condoned torture and abuse at secret prisons, but they have conducted a systematic campaign to mislead Congress, the American people and the world about those policies.

Here’s a link to the article the editorial mentions: Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations

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