I liked the Andrew Sullivan open letter to George W. Bush in the October issue of The Atlantic. I would not consider myself a Bush fan, and I don't agree with the idea of torture. But I was really surprised to find that many people really seem to think that torture was never condoned by previous US presidents. Can we really naively believe that torture was unknown to the CIA during the Cold War under the administration of our beloved JFK?
One reader wrote in a letter to the editor, published in the current December issue, accusing Bush of undermining "decades of unassailable moral leadership on the international stage" with his employment of torture. Perhaps we had decades of such unassailable moral leadership because no one made an issue of it until now?
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