A message can't be more pointed and direct than that of Nobel Prize winner [for economics] Paul Krugman - writing in the NY Times under the headline "The Conscience of a Liberal":
"Back from a partly medical absence. Before I do some economics posts, I think I ought to say something about the torture memos — namely, that there is now no way to view the people who ruled us these past 8 years as anything but monsters. We had all these rationalizations of torture over the “ticking clock” and all that — then we learn, for example, that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month.
I really don’t even want to think about all this. But this was our government — and these people might be back."
"Back from a partly medical absence. Before I do some economics posts, I think I ought to say something about the torture memos — namely, that there is now no way to view the people who ruled us these past 8 years as anything but monsters. We had all these rationalizations of torture over the “ticking clock” and all that — then we learn, for example, that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month.
I really don’t even want to think about all this. But this was our government — and these people might be back."
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