How the Bush-Cheney years changed Andrew Sullivan's view of America

This is harsh, but I think he captures
it well. I never thought I would be a citizen of a country that endorsed
torture. It still makes me sad to think about that.

I will never think of America the same way after the
Bush-Cheney administration. They ripped the scales off my eyes; they proved
that America isn't, in the end, different; that its core moral principles, such
as the prohibition of torture, are nostrums to be tossed aside at the whim of a
few very scared and incompetent men; that the rule of law ends when it comes to
presidential power, when he can simply order dipshit lawyers to say black is
white; when no regret is ever truly expressed about the tens of thousands of
Iraqis who died under US occupation; when the architects of these strategic and
moral disasters are given legal immunity and peddle books on talkshows
defending and bragging of their own awful legacy.