We know that torture was done in the name of the United States of America.
But we don't know enough yet, not if we want to be set free from evil that, corporately, we did.
I am seeing the need for the very opposite of the usual politicized hunt for convenient scapegoats. I look for our president and other leaders, both political and religious, to find ways for the citizens of the United States of America to know who did what and when. We don't need to hear justifications or excuses. And though there probably need to be prosecutions (since we are under the rule of the law), pointing fingers of blame as though any of us are thereby exonerated, will not get us where we need to go.
We the people had hears but we didn't hear;
we had eyes, but we didn't see;
we had voices, and we were silent.
If that weren't the truth, the atrocities of the torture would not have been allowed. Now we must hear, see, and find our voices once again.
We the people must be led to face the truth head on, accept corporate responsibility for the evil done, and allow ourselves to be led to lament and I pray, humility. Only in this way will we as a people grow into maturity.
Mature people know: only the truth, the whole truth, the real truth, unadorned with pieties and excuses, can set us free.
