OBAMA'S FIRST FAILURE

Dear Reader/s,

A very sad day in American history has come to pass. After the long "dark age" of the Bush administration, our newest and greatest hope has failed us.

The war crimes that were committed by the CIA will not be prosecuted. This is decreed from our new president Obama.

War crimes must be punished, because their punishment serves as a warning to future perpetrators. War criminals of the future must know that they will not be able to escape their deeds.

No one man may give another permission to commit war crimes, or crimes against humanity. If the Justice Department gave the CIA permission to torture POW's or kidnap victims, this doesn't absolve CIA war criminals for their deeds. It is impossible for any orgainization to give permission to any individual or organization to commit war crimes.

Hitler's Gestapo had full authorization for the tortures it carried out, the SS running concentration camps had full authorization for its atrocities. This does not absolve them for their deeds.

The very nature of WAR CRIMES and CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY is that they cannot every be "authorized, legalized, or absolved".

As a constitutional scholar President Obama should be aware that the war crimes committed by the CIA are dangerous not simply because they were crimes committed against undesirables.

These same crimes were threats against the American People's freedom from similar tortures and intrusions. These crimes and their precursor elements were unnecessary attacks against the safety of Americans against the same.

When it becomes legal for the CIA to slap, cramp, sleep deprive, etc Muslim undesirables, it also becomes just a little bit easier for an over zealous policeman to "mugg" a suspect, or plant evidence on him.

When the President of our nation allows these offences to go without retribution, it will ultimately engender Muslims who were sitting on the fence to become sympathetic with those that have been mistreated and their radical causes.

If our President were to pursue level headed prosecution of those that have committed crimes, our nation would begin to regain much desperately need respect in both first and third world arenas.

There is also the problem of what will happen should the United States fall into the hands of another ethically vacuous and malevolent president such as George Bush. If previous offenses are allowed to be forgiven, what motivates future CIA agents from committing similar crimes?

Our nation has failed to demand from Obama a promise to bring CIA criminals to justice before he was elected. Our nation will likely fail to inspire him during his tenure to reverse this decision and correctly punish the correctly guilty.

Obama is for all intents and purposes a decent and intelligent man. As a nation we will now begin to pay the price for his first failure.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249847