Thursday, April 20, 2006
Bob Herbert talks about Our Dirty War
In his column today Bob Herbert takes on the Bushoviks evil practice of disappearing people.
The details are known and they are ugly. And anybody who is not deeply, deeply ashamed of what our government is doing is not a true American.
I said, ''Some of these folks have never been heard from again, right?'' ''Yup,'' said Curt Goering. ''That's right.''
Mr. Goering is the senior deputy executive director for policy and programs at Amnesty International USA. We were discussing a subject -- government-sanctioned disappearances -- that ordinarily would repel most Americans.
In past years, stories about torture and ''the disappeared'' have been associated with sinister regimes in South and Central America. The attitude in the United States was that we were above such dirty business, that it was immoral and uncivilized, and we were better than that.
But times change, and we've lowered our moral standards several notches since then. Now people are disappearing at the hands of the U.S. government.
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