If you don't like the past, just look forward.

Glorioski's, the Times may have one right...

The editorial referenced above deserves some consideration - particularly from the political sides who see no progress in "looking back".  There is a bastardization of an old axiom that says, roughly "if you have no idea where you are then any road could have led you there". 

What possible defense is there to looking back at something to correct it if indeed it was wrong?  We all have those events in our lives that evoke a primal scream in the car and that is just part of life.  But what of the defense of it that comes from ignoring it simply in the interest of moving on.  "OWWWW I have a splinter in my foot but I'm just going to move on".  That may be brave but it is foolish.

History needs to be cleaned up by those of us who made it and if we are unable, then a broom with higher authority sweeps the mess into a pile that we can deal with and just doesn't push it under a rug.

Since Bush and his cronies refused to tell us what was going on and what was legal and not about the whole torture thing, then I look to the courts to get involved.  That's it. Period.   Kings "just decide". Presidents read the law.