Wednesday, February 13, 2008
The NY Times misses the point
In an editorial today, the NYT properly excoriates the White House plans to use kangaroo courts to justify killing 6 of the inmates in time to influence the election. But they miss the point when they write this.
The Bush administration’s decision to put six detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on trial before military tribunals and to seek the death penalty is both a betrayal of American ideals and simply bad strategy. Instead of being what they could and should be — a model of justice dispensed impartially, surely and dispassionately — the trials will proceed under deeply flawed procedures that violate this country’s basic fairness. The intense negative attention they will receive will do enormous damage to what is left of America’s standing in world opinion.What they are seeing here is the small heart of George W Bush writ large on the public stage.
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