Zitat des Tages von Anthony Lewis:
The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, in open court before an international tribunal, had a profound long-term effect in bringing Germans back to democracy and humanity.
Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.
Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.
The First Amendment is very important, but it's not everything.
With one terrible exception, the Civil War, law and the Constitution have kept America whole and free.
Attacking the indecency of life in much of the Southern Hemisphere is no longer a matter of grace, of charity, of patronizing kindness. It is a matter of intense self-interest.
Is it 'left' to insist that presidents and CIA directors adhere to the law? I don't think so. I think it's American.