{"id":566,"date":"2008-02-14T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=566"},"modified":"2008-02-14T09:27:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T13:27:49","slug":"superbad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Superbad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/14\/opinion\/14kristof.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion&amp;oref=slogin\">Nicholas Kristof<\/a> admits his own disqualifying gullibility about the Bush Administration&#39;s line on the prison at Guantanamo Bay:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Most Americans, including myself, originally gave President Bush the benefit of the doubt and assumed that the inmates truly were &ldquo;<strong>the worst of the worst<\/strong>.&rdquo; But evidence has grown that many are simply the unluckiest of the unluckiest. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The worst criminals in the United States have done something straightforwardly illegal.&nbsp; It seems it would follow that the prisoners at Guantanamo, being the worst of the worst, will have done something even more obviously illegal.&nbsp; As the worst get a trial in a regular US court, as a way of shining a light on their heinous crimes, wouldn&#39;t it follow that the worst of the worst ought to have at least an equally transparent trial?&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Of course, Kristof thinks the whole thing is a travesty&#8211;now.&nbsp; But his employment of the superlative underscores the bewildering ontological specialness granted, sometimes, to our enemies.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicholas Kristof admits his own disqualifying gullibility about the Bush Administration&#39;s line on the prison at Guantanamo Bay: Most Americans, including myself, originally gave President Bush the benefit of the doubt and assumed that the inmates truly were &ldquo;the worst of the worst.&rdquo; But evidence has grown that many are simply the unluckiest of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Superbad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inexplicable","category-nicholas-kristof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}