IN THE NEWS
Josh Marshall has a good handle on how painful this episode will be.
As much as I think Rumsfeld has been a terrible Secretary of Defense, I'm not feeling any joy at this moment. If the next several weeks play out the way Marshall describes, further national agony is on the way.
And we can't be spared from it. We shouldn't be spared from it. At this point in history, whatever your feelings about Iraq, Bush, Afghanistan, Rumsfeld, 9/11, Wolfowitz, you need to behave like a citizen. I know that I use that word a lot, and it's because it's a lot like saying, "Be a responsible adult."
Stop treating politics as if it didn't exist, or was merely entertainment. Shows like Crossfire or The O'Reilly Factor to be anything but some weird Brechtian spin-off, with people screaming their rage and hatred until the red light on the camera blinks off.
Stop treating the news like an echo chamber. If you have time after you've read the real news, and you want to read an opinion piece or two, have fun. But the facts--like really, really knowing what the hell is going on in Abu Ghraib, the rest of Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay--matter now more than anything. We don't have enough of them. We don't demand them strongly enough. And the facts are a hell of a lot more important than taking yet another hit from the crack pipe of talk radio or pundit TV. If every commentator were fired today, and all we heard tomorrow was the news, we might never miss the talking heads at all, once we'd detoxed from years of entertaining but pointless screaming matches that look more like a cock fight than Athenian democracy.
As a citizen, you have to make choices. Vote or don't vote. Protest or don't protest. Call your senator, or don't. Treat the people who don't agree with you as the principled opposition, or condemn them as traitors. Whatever you do or don't do, you've made a choice.
UPDATE
Guantanamo Bay and the secret prisons whose names and locations we don't know have been a growing tumor on the nation for years. Today, Sidney Blumenthal speaks the word too many people were afraid to say: gulag.
P.S. Even if no torture and degradation were occurring, this policy would still be horribly, horribly wrong.
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