Reply #8: So it's all just a matter of philosophy, right?

[Matt Shapiro]

Obama to the guilty:

Listen up war criminals! You can't do that torture stuff any more. The people who told you it was OK to do it and the people who actually told you to do it -- they were incorrect, and maybe even a little naughty. Now, we won't give your names out, but you be good from now on, at least while I'm in charge.

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By these standards, the Nazi camp guards who tortured and murdered the human beings in their charge should never have been prosecuted or punished. Neither should their bosses all the way up to Eichmann and Hitler.

After all, it's just a matter of philosophy. Their philosophy was wrong. Ours is right. A difference of opinion. We need to move on.

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President Obama -- By not prosecuting every one of these war criminals to the fullest extent of the law, from the lowly torturer to the buck-stops-here commander-in-chief, you have become complicit in their crimes, regardless of your change in course, and you almost insure that some future administration will do even worse, since their philosophy will say it's just fine and dandy.