History says, don't hope/On this side of the grave./But then, once in a lifetime/The longed-for tidal wave/Of justice can rise up,/And hope and history rhyme.
-- Seamus Heaney
Obama’s Torture Problem by David Cole | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
"Looking forward, not back," as Obama as said he will do regarding past war crimes is only a rewriting of history -- trying to pretend that past crimes do not exist.
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