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June 25, 2005

Wearing the black hat

In the world of old western films, the visual metaphor sometimes had the "good guy" wearing a white hat and the "bad guy" would wear a black hat.

Right now, the United States is the guy in the black hat.

This week at the United Nations, the United States admitted that torture of detainees had taken place at Guantanamo Bay and in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Naturally the news was released on Friday and under the radar of the Karl Rove brouhaha. It will be interesting to see if it shows up on the Sunday talk shows.

In related black hat behavior, 13 CIA members have been charged by and Italian judge with kidnapping an Egyptian:

Confirming the arrest warrant without mentioning the U.S. intelligence agency, the prosecutors office said the 13 suspects were believed to be behind the abduction of imam Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was grabbed off a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003 and stuffed into a white van.

Nasr was then taken to a U.S. air base in Aviano, Italy and flown to Egypt, stopping over on the way in Ramstein, Germany, to change planes, the prosecutors' statement said.

Kidnapping...torture..circumventing the laws of other nations...lying to governments that are our strongest allies....

One of Bush's alledged strengths is his "cowboy diplomacy". Right now..the cowboy is wearing the wrong color. And he doesn't look much like he's in the market to change.

Posted by Carla at June 25, 2005 09:08 AM