I hope that the United States has turned the page on thosetimes and is returning to the values that sustained our country for so many years. But we cannot expect to regain our position of leadership in the world unless we hold ourselves to the same standards that we expect of others. That means punishing the most senior government officials responsible for these crimes. We have demanded this from other countries that have returned from walking on the dark side; we should expect no less from ourselves.
-- Mark J. McKeon, onetime prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in an op-ed entitled Why We Must Prosecute: Torture Is a Breach Of International Law. It was published yesterday, on the 5th anniversary of the disclosure of photos depicting detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
