Once in a while you happen upon a piece of writing that grabs your attention and holds you in it’s grasp through it’s entirety. A composition that brings together into one place the heartache, the indefensible actions, the ill-will of the past eight years. A sad recapitulation… a summary of the Bush years.

From the Daily Kos diary of “Hunter“:

Requiem

Of all the things I despise about the Bush administration, the one I will forever loathe most is how they made morality a minority position. It was the standard operating procedure of the Bush years that ethics was considered quaint, that pride in government was considered hopelessly idealistic, and that morality was the stuff of starry eyed fools.

I could believe that the United States would be reduced to torture; we have tarnished our history with more and with less, over the last two centuries, and it would be naive to presume it had ended, say, with the internment of Japanese Americans, or with the officially sanctioned witch hunts of the paranoid and rigorously manipulative McCarthy era. But I would have found it harder to imagine, even eight years ago, that human torture would be considered the more noble choice than refraining from it, or that those that opposed it would be met with such mockery, or such flag-waving revulsion.

I urge you to go read the rest of the article.

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