Bush administration officials join ranks of tyranny
Robert Zaller
Issue date: 6/24/05 Section: Ed-Op
For the first time in history, a democratic electorate had certified a rogue state. Some of us did vote the other way. But this time, the guilt really is collective. Abu Ghraib belongs to all of us.
President Bush promptly nominated Condoleezza Rice, one of the principal architects of the Iraq war and its detainment policies, as Secretary of State. He then nominated Alberto R. Gonzales, the point man in the strategy to evade the Geneva Conventions, as Attorney General. Both were confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Somewhere, Ribbentrop and Himmler had to be smiling.
As I write, Abu Ghraib is still open for business. So is Guantanamo Bay. "Shut it down. Just shut it down," Thomas L. Friedman begged in The New York Times the other day. Friedman is one of the war's chief boosters. Even he has finally gotten the point.
America is not only alone in the world, except for the tyrants it pays to do the worst of its torturing for it.
It has deserted itself as well.
Dr. Robert Zaller is a professor of history. Dr. Zaller can be reached through ed-op@thetriangle.org.
President Bush promptly nominated Condoleezza Rice, one of the principal architects of the Iraq war and its detainment policies, as Secretary of State. He then nominated Alberto R. Gonzales, the point man in the strategy to evade the Geneva Conventions, as Attorney General. Both were confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Somewhere, Ribbentrop and Himmler had to be smiling.
As I write, Abu Ghraib is still open for business. So is Guantanamo Bay. "Shut it down. Just shut it down," Thomas L. Friedman begged in The New York Times the other day. Friedman is one of the war's chief boosters. Even he has finally gotten the point.
America is not only alone in the world, except for the tyrants it pays to do the worst of its torturing for it.
It has deserted itself as well.
Dr. Robert Zaller is a professor of history. Dr. Zaller can be reached through ed-op@thetriangle.org.
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jad62
jad62
posted 6/24/05 @ 4:34 PM EST
Professor Zaller is a liar and a traitor!
It is insulting to the students who pay good money to attend Drexel University to have Robert Zaller teaching history -- he should instead teach revisionist history -- but that's probably how his lectures wind up anyway. (Continued…)
abercrombie_guy_38
abercrombie_guy_38
posted 6/29/05 @ 9:06 PM EST
If Professor Zaller is appalled at the "torture" at Gitmo, I want his opinions on Drexel's frat houses. Surely worse goes on in those houses than at Gitmo. (Continued…)
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