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2 comments:
First of all, wow. That was quite a strongly worded article. There is no doubt that I do agree that John Yoo's definition of "sever pain" was a stretch; one made for the purpose to make tourture not appear as such. However, I couldn't help but be distracted by the fact that Gary Kamiya had a personal dislike for John Yoo. I can now see why people feel the the press it too liberal.
I do agree with most of what Kamiya had to say. However, at the end of his article he started criticizing Obama, making it sound like Obama doesn't want to know what the memos say and over look them. I do not think this is the case. Kimiya makes it seem like if Obama doesn't throughly investigate the memos, he will not be a good leader. I believe that Obama knows that most people did not view that last eight years as being great and wants to make at least his next four years something people will appreciate. So, he wants to focus on making his plans good and not focus on how bad the ones made before him were. I just think that Kimiya had so much dislike for the Bush administration, he can't see past that. That may not be the case, but that's how it came across to me.
John Yoo, who I am glad to say we have established as NOT the head of the United Nations, does seem to be a bit off kilter, inferred from this article. This uber-conservative stance, often associated with the pro-war, pro-violence is not unusual to me because of the content of his opinions- because let's face it, if we go anywhere in the Midwest, we will find those who actually want to enroll in the army. The surprising thing is that John Yoo lives in California, the homeland of the liberals, and works at Berkeley, the homeland of the free-love, hippies who are too liberal for most liberals. I'm a bit shocked that he is still employed by Cal after all this scandal and pro-torture stance especially because he, and the school by association are receiving so much bad press for it. To conclude, I hope he gets diagnosed with a personality disorder to explain his contrary life- living in Berkeley, supporting Bush- and he repents and recants these crazy opinions
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