Leftist drivel

Spanish prosecutors soon will indict six former members of the Bush administration including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, reports ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper, citing Scott Horton at the blog "Daily Beast."

Late last week, Spain's attorney general, Candido Conde-Pumpido, recommended that the judge, Baltasar Garzón, should dismiss the complaint, brought by human rights lawyers. But on April 24, the judge resisted pressure with a decision to proceed with the case, reports William Fisher at pubrecord.org.

The attorney general encouraged the judge to let sleeping Bush administration officials lie. According to a report by the British Broadcasting Company, Mr. Conde-Pumpido said that Judge Garzón's proposed criminal investigation into the actions of former Bush officials for possible violations of international law has "no merit."

The criminal action alleges the Americans gave legal cover to torture by claiming that the U.S. president could ignore the Geneva Conventions.

Let's stipulate that -- in a world of imperfect mortals -- neither America nor her government is perfect. But the real question is, among the community of nations, where on the spectrum does the behavior of this nation -- with our continuing, ongoing democratic debate about whether our leaders are on the right course -- fall?

Given limited time and resources, does it make more sense to condemn, "indict" and "issue arrest warrants" for members of the Bush administration for their attempts to carefully titrate the discomfort suffered by captured al-Qaida terrorists under interrogation, or to condemn and indict, say ... men who kidnap airliners full of noncombatant civilians, and then send those innocent men, women and children to a fiery death, by using those planes to kill thousands more defenseless civilians in office buildings?

Have the Spaniards indicted Osama bin Laden?

This has nothing to do with an objective analysis of who's shown the greatest proclivity to hook up defenseless dissidents to electrical generators, or gouge out eyes or yank out teeth -- or the Spanish courts would die of old age as they worked their way down through the surviving leaders of the Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea and communist China.

This is targeted, leftist anti-Americanism, tried and true. But the curious thing in the face of such nonsense is the silence -- verging on tacit endorsement -- of the Obama administration. How many more of us would he stand by and watch thrown to the wolves?