Edited on Sun May-24-09 10:10 AM by Time for change
President Obama has to decide between doing what is politically safe or what is right.
The idea of preventive indefinite preventive detention -- forever -- is morally repugnant and primarily a characteristic of totalitarian states. My preference would be for him to do what is right, even if that means risking defeat in the next election.
And your reference to "abstract human rights issues" is difficult for me to understand. What is abstract about locking people up forever for crimes that you suspect that they MIGHT commit in the future. Once we go down that road what chance do we have of preserving democracy?
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