Bright Moments

"The sense I have is that there's an unease, an uncomfortable sense about the whole Guantanamo milieu. There's just a sense of too many shortcuts in the whole process,"

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This must qualify as the brightest moment in recent American political history... compliments to Senator Arlen Specter, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is not sure of course, he just 'senses' Guantanomo Bay smells a bit fishy...

Would that be the smell of corroding liberal values? Or no, wait, it could also be rotting justice.

Here is my bright moment: I sense that the powers-that-be in Washington need a good hard look back at American\Western history and get to grips with what being a liberal and democratic country meant again: especially in times of what they consider war...