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Never again
Keith Olbermann's special comment tonight was on prosecuting torture, and it was powerful -- here's an excerpt:
Sadly, as commendable as the intention here might seem, this country has never succeeded in "moving forward" without first cleansing itself of its mistaken past. In point of fact, every effort to merely 'draw a line in the sand' and declare the past, dead, has served only to keep the past alive—and often to strengthen it.
We compromised with slavery in the Declaration of Independence—and four score and nine years later we had buried 600-thousand of our sons and brothers in a Civil War.
After that War's ending, we compromised with the social restructuring and protection of the rights of minorities in the South. And a century later, we had not only not resolved anything, but black leaders were still being assassinated in the cities of the South.
You can watch it below, including an overly generous shout-out to your friendly blogger and The Question: