Thursday, May 21, 2009

first thoughts

Guantanamo and interrogation techniques, continued  

I had the honor to listening to the President and the former Vice President on the same subjects which include a raft of topics relating to Constitutional principles, making war, legal detentions, torture, and so on.  They struck very different tones, working from very different principles. 

The man who demanded that all the operations of the government be made classified and be conducted in secrecy now condemns the President for being dishonest. 

If the only purpose of American government is to protect us against attack , then Cheney is probably right. This is the shallow thinking of some Americans. I have no doubt Cheney is absolutely serious.   

1 comment:

Alice said...

A little bit off the topic: The other night Jon Stewart asked Newt Gingrich: If you can trust the government with the running the whole military, why can't we trust them to run health care testing like TB tests(referring to the single payer government health care proposal). I thought it was a good question. Thank goodness we have a president now that can walk and chew gum at the same time. The thing disagree most with him about is instituting more Charter Schools.