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The Democrats have a problem: John Kerry is a sucky candidate.

Perhaps the only thing that may save them is that he is Not Bush™

The Economist says

With a heavy heart, we think American readers should vote for John Kerry on November 2nd

The incompetent or the incoherent?
The issue of Guantanamo doesn't seem to even register with the US press, but I think it is an evil of Bush's doing.

The biggest mistake, though, was one that will haunt America for years to come. It lay in dealing with prisoners-of-war by sending hundreds of them to the American base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, putting them in a legal limbo, outside the Geneva conventions and outside America's own legal system. That act reflected a genuinely difficult problem: that of having captured people of unknown status but many of whom probably did want to kill Americans, at a time when to set them free would have been politically controversial, to say the least. That difficulty cannot neutralise the damage caused by this decision, however. Today, Guantánamo Bay offers constant evidence of America's hypocrisy, evidence that is disturbing for those who sympathise with it, cause-affirming for those who hate it. This administration, which claims to be fighting for justice, the rule of law and liberty, is incarcerating hundreds of people, whether innocent or guilty, without trial or access to legal representation. The White House's proposed remedy, namely military tribunals, merely compounds the problem.

As seen on Slashdot /.

You can read the letter I wrote to the Economist (they didn't publish it). posted by Richard at 19:56 / permalink (post) | permalink (numeric)