Obama’s Cheney Dilemma

I watched Bush peformance for 8 years the only qualification he has is how to doge and duck size 10 shoes...well done Bush...... otherwise you are Dumb Idiot

And I suppose at the same time he is leveling with the America people he can tip his hand to the terrorists. Brilliant.

These punks are saying "To save the Constitution it is necessary to destroy it."

Taylor and Thomas lack faith in America. Forget them, and forget any rag that prints their garbage.

Bin laden wasn't a "political leader" that falls under the aegis of the EA this author cited.

So much for journalistic credibility. The list of falsehoods, deliberate distortions and failure to accept the consensual assessment of failed American policy is breath-taking. News for all the tools who made torture and failed occupations possible: We also had 7 years of no attacks on American soil before the Supreme Court appointed Bush president in 2000. Of course, at that point in time, it is a well-documented fact he ignored the Clinton administration's specific warning that terrorists were planning to use airplanes to conduct acts of terrorism.

Nauseating.

Messrs. Thomas and Taylor are disgusting shills for disgusting, inhuman policies which were and are blatantly illegal, never mind the fact that they have been proven time and again to be utterly useless as investigative tools.

That this piece of hackwork was chosen for the *cover* of your magazine only compounds the mind-numbing moral decrepitude displayed by the editorial 'brain' trust.

Pardon me while I vomit.

to Sinnotti,

Baloney...American property and military forces were attacked during the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations, but American's slumbering and complacent people, including liberals, refused to see anything behind it, preferring as always to blame the soldiers for being attacked and killed. What are you smoking?

To Keith V. Glenn: They are already doing it to us and our soldiers. Everyone else pretty much already does it.

Let's see, according to Stuart Taylor's logic. Hmm. America was never attacked in Nixon's, Ford's, Carter's, Reagan's, or Clinton's years in office. But America WAS attacked during the Bush-Cheney watch. Therefore, hmm, Obama must adopt the policies of Bush-Cheney. Hmm.

This is professional journalism?

Stuart Taylor has long since moved over to the dark side. Now Evan Thomas joins him. When your reporting isn't accurate, and it results in distortions to the point of lies (e.g. no direct link reported between the White House and torture, ha!), you disgrace yourselves and move your whole magazine over into the category of Bush/Cheney shills. You're out of touch with both reality and the American people. How can we take you seriously, unless it is to resist your nonsense at every turn?

If there is real concern for turning things around then there is one thing that has to be done first, one thing that when not done has proven to make everything else meaningless. That one thing is the development of a sincere and honest concern for getting it right to benefit the majority of Americans, to drop the preoccupation with justifying and rationalizing the self-indulgence and the focus on benefiting Special Interests and a select few, who return benefit. Over the last eight years in particular we have clearly seen and been subjected to the free wheeling and arrogant subterfuge constantly offered to cover over just those actions and we now are living with the total devastation that brings. If the politicians continue to focus on themselves, if the issue is whether Republican or Democrat, or conservative or liberal, if their efforts are really just more disguised manipulation appealing to people???s biases to justify benefit for limited interests, then we will just continue to pay the penalty. The only way they can effectively make the right decisions on how much money to give who, on what qualifications and controls must be put in place, on what regulations and regulatory enforcements have to be enacted, on what comes first and so on, is when they are truly and honestly concerned for more than just what advances their personal interests. Whenever we have seen them expending great energy and rhetoric to block or advance a cause, it has always been for a partisan self-interest, no matter how rationalized. Turning that around should be the real goal; good luck!

Forgive them Father, they know not what they say.

You've got to be kidding me. All last year, I read the Newsweek articles posted here and, I don't think I imagined this, sat by as the Newsweek elitists crucified Pres. Bush for all the harm he caused. NOW I read an article that tacitly, if not expressly, encourages Obama to "stay the course"???? WTF!!!!

Put a fork in Newsweek, I think they're done as serious journalists. Perhaps if you had done more work at the beginning and tried to discover the reason behind Pres. Bush's policies, you may have just discovered that there was a method behind the madness. What are you going to do when the "Messiah" appears to walk "lock-step" with the Satan you portray Pres. Bush as being.

All of you, reporters and editors alike, should be ashamed. Unfortunately, I think the concept of shame is also something you just don't understand.

cheers!

i don't know what's worse--Evan Thomas & Stuart Taylor tacitly endorsing torture or the knuckledraggers posting here. Either way, Newsweek seems finished as a serious news outlet.