American morality scam. Part II

Benedict Arnold, regarded as America’s greatest traitor, is said to have expressed regret for his attempt to surrender the fort at West Point to the British; Former California Governor Earl Warren expressed regret for supporting the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; Roy Cohn, the opportunistic chief counsel to witch-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy, is said to have expressed regret over the lives he unjustly destroyed during the “red scare” of the 1950s; Former United States Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara expressed regret for his role in escalating the Vietnamese war during the 1960s; former Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun, who supported death penalty laws throughout his tenure, waited until six months before his retirement to express regret over the constitutionality of capital punishment.

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But do these belated expressions of contrition make Arnold, Warren, Cohn, McNamara, and Blackmun heroes, or simply latter-day Pontius Pilates attempting to “wash their hands” of deeds they can no longer change? What about the people these individuals victimized before the pangs of conscience arose? Is it fair to forgive the victimizers while the victims are forgotten, or to praise them for simply recognizing what they should have known all along?

Now America’s newest Benedict Arnold, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, is predictably joining this legion of “ethical” crusaders by denouncing the Bush dictatorship’s perverse desire to further shred the Bill of Rights and spit upon the Geneva Convention, simply so the world’s largest criminal organization, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), will have unbridled discretion to rape, torture, falsely imprison, “disappear,” and murder political dissidents, simply by labeling them terrorists.

Yet this is the same Colin Powell who arrogantly proffered to the United Nations the Bush dictatorship’s fabrications about the “urgent” need to invade Iraq, the same Colin Powell who angrily replied, “Don’t go there,” when legislators questioned Bush’s use of family wealth and influence to avoid combat duty during the war in Vietnam, the same Colin Powell who continued to obsequiously regurgitate the Bush dictatorship’s lies long after those lies had been exposed.

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