When We Reap the Whirlwinds

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
Guantánamo's Long Shadow
By ANTHONY LEWIS
The United States has led the way in fighting for human
rights, but mistreating prisoners makes the world see our
moral claims as hypocrisy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/21/opinion/21lewis.html?th&emc=th

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Anthony Lewis spent a year in a special program for non-lawyer professionals at Harvard Law School and, thus, is especially sensitive to the violations of the rule of law and human rights and the terrible precedents that are being set by the Bush administration. Manifestly these American maggots act without thinking out consequences -- in launching wars as well as abusing persons. The horror here is that all we Americans are implicated in their criminal actions. We have none but ourselves to blame when we reap the whirlwinds.
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