Secret Prisons?
The CIA is rfefusing comment on reports that we are holding detainees in secret prisons.
No doubt many will say, so be it. Terrorism requires extraordinary measures.
But if we must turn our backs on everything we have stood for in order to defend ourselves, it seems to me that we have surrendered to those whose goal has been to undermine us and our institutions.
President Bush says the terrorists attack us because they hate our openness and our freedom.
That always seemed simple minded to me. But now that we are jettisoning our openness and our freedom, what is it that we are fighting to preserve?
No doubt many will say, so be it. Terrorism requires extraordinary measures.
But if we must turn our backs on everything we have stood for in order to defend ourselves, it seems to me that we have surrendered to those whose goal has been to undermine us and our institutions.
President Bush says the terrorists attack us because they hate our openness and our freedom.
That always seemed simple minded to me. But now that we are jettisoning our openness and our freedom, what is it that we are fighting to preserve?
posted by Blayney at 1:35 AM
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