Sleeping "Safe in Our Beds"

I was pleasantly surprised to read Garrison Keillor's Tribune Media column this week. Garrison, of "Lake Wobegon" fame, is a lefty, and has written many columns critical of George W. Bush. However, he is not joining "the sour righteousness of the victorious lording it over the vanquished," when it comes to the idea of launching criminal prosecutions of those who wrote the memos guiding the CIA interrogators. Keillor is correct when he writes that "retribution is not smart politics." He quotes Orwell: "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." The American people knew that was exactly what we were getting in George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.