you can't fight them but they can fight you yeah yeah they can fight you
As the lovely and talented Zeynep Toufe has pointed out, among the missing themes late in this presidential campaign - as well as the debates - has been the worldwide interrogation machine the Bush Administration set up under the direction of Donald Rumsfeld, signed off on by the President, and the subsequent torture scandals.
I'm at a loss for this. The rest of the world hasn't forgotten yet, (yes Mr. President, there is a rest of the world) and here in America Seymour Hersh just put out a book rolling up his excellent reportage on the topic for the New Yorker. The mountain of evidence contradicting the "few bad apples" nonsense would make excellent campaign fodder, and better illuminate the internationalism he seems to have difficulty putting over Bush's appeal to the coveted Cro-Magnon Dads in the hinterlands.
That he doesn't, and that Abu Ghraib has all but disappeared from the political dialogue now, should raise disturbing questions, especially for progressives who argue that Kerry is the only rational choice.
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