When someone moves, surprises are often left behind in the closet. So, it seems, it happened when the G. W. Bush administration moved, after hiding all their dirty laundry under the rug of attempts to claim Executive Privilege. The pundits certainly have very mixed reviews if you listen to Rove, Hannitty, et al over at Fox News or other news channels where there is a more objective concern over what our world standing is currently as a result.
One can empathize with all children whose parents violate the entire family by committing crimes of shame, leaving children to suffer the concerns from everyone around them as to whether they will grow up to be like the offending parent.
Now that the truth is coming out, how will honest people feel about the way that the Administration leaders who set it up and gave their approval it, underwrote it all, and allowed so many of the underlings to spend years incarcerated for following orders? When the military takes in marginally bright bodies, it should not be surprising that they do not know that they can stand up to their superiors when they were never taught a sense of law, morality, and what constitutes torture. When they saw what was done to prisoners who didn't go along with them and heard their President saying, "You are either with me or against me." it might have been very difficult to refuse, unless they were hand picked for their cruel and sadistic tendencies.
We can only hope that most of the world will not forget the kindness of this country to so many in world, though much of the Middle Eastern world would scarcely remember very much before 9/11 and the ensuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I, for one, appreciate that President Obama hasn't gone after the past Administration officials to prosecute but is letting the truth of what happened come out naturally, through efforts of others, so that he need do nothing other than refrain from stopping any legal process started.
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