The new Gitmo revelations are shocking, horrific and just disturbing in a rather profound way. If you really stop and think about the horror we inflicted on some people because we thought they were useful, or couldn't muster the political will to let them go, it gets literally sickening.
This should be a time for serious shame and introspection as a nation. We should be taking a collective moment to consider what our "values" really are, and how it is we've strayed so far. We should wonder what we will tell the youngest generation of Americans when they ask us twenty years from now how America was ever capable of such a thing.
It's so incredibly sad. And, it's almost just as sad to know we're not going to stop and think of such things; to know that there's not going to be much solemnity or outrage or even discussion over this.
The fact that Presidents from each party are now forever linked to the blight that is Gitmo should allow us to come clean about what we've done and what we've become. Instead, that fact will be the central reason we delude ourselves into covering it all up.
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