MB Civic

By Harold Meyerson | September 20, 2006 | The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901440.html

Another meditation on ‘coercive interrogation’, this one by the very literate Meyerson: “Lindsey Graham, John Warner, Colin Powell and above all John McCain know firsthand what war can do to men and why we need laws to keep men from becoming their nightmare image of their enemy.” Using the curent tortue debate as his starting point, Meyerson takes us to some unexpected places, reviewing war stories as ancient as Homer and as American as the movies of John Ford. The dangere here, in Meyerson’s view is that “…our nation is led by men who have carefully avoided both war and literature. By men devoid of a sense of the nation’s and their own moral fallibility. By men who have led us into a moral desert and aren’t even looking for a way back home.” Highly recommended…BS