two thoughts on four years later

As Anne Applebaum writes, it is a shame that our policy of torture and locking people up for years without trial has eroded belief in the US legal system to the extent that Khalid Sheikh Muhammed's confession to 9/11 and everything else has been greeted with massive skepticism, at home and abroad.

And de facto President Bush asked us all for patience. In other words, with apologies to John Lennon, "all we are saying, is give war a chance."