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Tanuki: Finally some good news: Trump is going to bring back black site prisons and torture. Fox: You'd almost think Obama's failure to prosecute war criminals from the previous administration was a major oversight. Tanuki: Guantanamo will stay open. Waterboarding and other torture techniques will be encouraged again. Military show trials. Secret evidence. Fox: Of course the signature feature of American democracy is that the higher-ups must always be shielded from all consequences. Tanuki: There must have been a moment where we could have said no. But somehow we missed it. Fox: There is no American Nuremberg.

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This state of affairs is so ignorant, so egregious, so anti-American, I have trouble believing anyone at all could imagine it's okay, let alone carry it along into its third Presidential administration. Yeah, sure, Obama really meant to close Guantanamo, whoops, sorry about that, Congress obstructed it, although somehow we failed to get to it during the two years the Democrats had control of both houses of Congress. Not only didn't Obama manage the relatively simple task of closing the national shame of the United States, he completely failed to repudiate all the Constitution-shredding and Geneva Convention-defying actions of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of those mass murderers by attempting to hold them responsible. And that, like so many of Obama's official actions, left the door open for future administrations to recreate the worst excesses of the past.

And, yes, that last bit is from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.