Barack Obama has released the memos that shows the US Justice Department and the CIA arguing around the legality of torture. Good.
Barack Obama is going to spare every official complicit in preparing this position and carrying it through. Bad.
Of course the fact that one of his first executive acts was to end these practises was praised the fact that nobody is going to be held to account for them is a poor show. Yes if somebody was merely following orders at the low end there is a possible case for leniency but what about those who were issuing those orders.
The fact is that once you let torture be used by your own forces what happens when you send your own into combat situations? What happens should they be captured? Somebody somewhere in the USA has not only realised that certain International Treaties do no apply to them as they are not signatories but also that they can circumvent the laws of human decency for the excuse of expediency.
It's a shame that Obama is not going to take this further merely exposing the wart is not enough in the eyes of most of the world on this issue.
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