It was easy to miss so here is Desmond Tutu's letters to the editor as published by
NYT online:
I am deeply, deeply disturbed at the suggestion in “
A Court to Vet Kill Lists”
(news analysis, front page, Feb. 9) that possible judicial review of
President Obama’s decisions to approve the targeted killing of suspected
terrorists might be limited to the killings of American citizens.
Do the United States and its people really want to tell those of us who
live in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value
as yours? That President Obama can sign off on a decision to kill us
with less worry about judicial scrutiny than if the target is an
American? Would your Supreme Court really want to tell humankind that
we, like the slave Dred Scott in the 19th century, are not as human as
you are? I cannot believe it.
I used to say of apartheid that it dehumanized its perpetrators as much
as, if not more than, its victims. Your response as a society to Osama
bin Laden and his followers threatens to undermine your moral standards
and your humanity.
DESMOND M. TUTU
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