No, Mr. Fair. Not "what America was." What America is.
And no, Mr. Fair, "putting veterans" like YOU in front of a class is NOT what America should be doing. YOU should be in prison, along with everybody else who participated, from Bush/Cheney on down.
You did get one thing right. You should NOT be forgiven. You should be in prison.
I don't know how people like this sleep at night. I don't know how they look themselves in the mirror when they get up in the morning.
He belongs in prison. Instead, he gets to teach creative writing at a University, while decent professors are laid off right and left.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/opinion/the-torture-report-reminds-us-of-what-america-was.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
I Can’t Be Forgiven for Abu Ghraib
The Torture Report Reminds Us of What America Was
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — I SPENT this semester teaching creative writing at Lehigh University. I’ve been a soldier, a police officer and an interrogator. So hearing students call me “Professor” and assigning homework was a significant change of pace.
But the course’s title, Writing War, kept me from straying too far from the memories that have haunted me over the last decade. I am grateful to Lehigh for the opportunity to teach the course. The school’s willingness to put a veteran in the classroom is the very thing this country needs to be doing in order to collectively process what the last 13 years of war have wrought. But teaching a class about war reminded me daily that I am no college professor.
I was an interrogator at Abu Ghraib. I tortured.
more at link. 