catch McCain on CBS this morning talking about torture?

I thought it was interesting that he said we couldn't criminalize legal opinions...move on...but just minutes later in the same interview he said in support of the Geneva Convention that countries that disregaurded it would be assured of enforcement.

Umm I am pretty sure he said retribution.

Sorry but...Wtf is that?

McCain isn't a simple man. He dismisses inquiry into our own romps into torture...and then says what will discourage potential offenders is the possibility of retribution????

Gee whiz Wally...what about the rule of law?

Let's insist on applying it to everyone else but...

I am no babe in the wood...I know we have no high mormal ground...but there was a time we at least pretended to aspire to it...you know..before we were told to go shopping and love the bush?

Why is it wrong to think we as a nation can aspire to be better than our enemies? To embrace education and reject ignorance. To open our public square to all religions. To bare our faces in the sunlight and to embrace each other in a country that is the land of the free?

Oh well...I have wandered off the point...reason, purpose, the rule of law...what's that that's made us a beacon of hope? Don't squander this gift...partisanship makes it easy to disregard the amazing gift you have been given to be a citizen of the United Stated of America.