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fact is that while there is a fairly compact chain of bush administration appointees who were directly responsible for this policy and its rationale, the entire political class caved in before the arguments that the bush administration put forward in favor of these actions. i think it is an ethical lapse of very considerable proportions and a political problem of even greater proportions. i see no way to address it apart from transparency to the greatest possible extent: release of the photos is an aspect of that transparency. the problem really with the release is not what the right says, but that the magnitude of the capitulation of the political class of the time to this bush administration policy becomes more and more obvious. but i think this a serious enough problem that the political class SHOULD feel the heat from it and should be forced to deal with it. sweeping it under the rug is not dealing with it. an ancillary fact is that the right will pay for this more than the democrats--but that too is as it should be.
it is because bureaucracies are such basically stupid organizations that it is all the more incumbent on the people who fashion--and approve---policy to not allow themselves to loose track of ethics not loose sight of fundamental human rights and the rule of law.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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