A Torturous Compromise

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/opinion/29friedman.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=torturous%20compromise&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Subject: re: A Torturous Compromise
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To the Editor:

   Our nation was founded in existential crisis. Our Founding Fathers would have been hanged for treason against the crown if our revolution had failed. Still, from this dire circumstance, they gave us a free country with the rule of law. Now Mr. Friedman suggests that we should retreat from the rule of law, from our treaty obligations and from the defense of human dignity because the threat from Al Qaeda is "unique". The Obama administration is faced with some grim challenges. The temptation to discard our core values when they seem inconvenient ranks high among them.

Barry Levine