Obama’s Speech in Cairo

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=cairo&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:05 PM
Subject: re: Text: Obama’s Speech in Cairo
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

   President Obama's Cairo speech is an eloquent and long over-due bid for America to rejoin the community of civilized nations; we all pray that it finds a wide resonance around the world.  There is room for worry however in his personal pledge to ban torture. Torture is illegal in the United States and it is the president's duty, not his choice, to see that that law is executed faithfully. If the law will be honored or dishonored merely at the whim of the Executive, we do not yet deserve a place in the councils of civilized nations.

Barry Levine