As President Obama grapples with accusations of torture by U.S. agents, I suggest he consult the former Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle.
I first contacted Daschle in 1975, when he was an aide to Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota, who was leading a somewhat lonely campaign against CIA abuses.
At the time, I was researching a book on the United States' role in the spread of military dictatorships throughout Latin America. Daschle ...
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It is good journalism because it teaches an important lesson about history: those who don't learn history's lessons are condemned to repeat them. Today's news is tomorrow's history but if the unpalatable truths are not reported, we will never learn from our mistakes. This reminds us WHY it is so important for the media to cover ALL the news, even some we might rather not read about.
It serves to remind us that when the representatives of our government get away with criminal behavior that they are emboldened to repeat it. If we ... More »
Good, but could have been improved by demonstrating an understanding that U.S. complicity in torture did not begin in the 1960's. Could have included mention of our use of waterboarding in the Phillipines, for example.
People who have never experienced crime or danger of death take an idealistic view of the world. This is sustainable only as long as everything is nice and the threat is remote. The author obviously falls into that camp. Lumping everything that is not perfect and ideal into the category of torture is typical academic stupidity.
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