Ethics

Ian Fishback's Example

By Ed Brayton

Time magazine chose Barack Obama as Person of the Year and that was both an obvious choice and a good one by the criteria the magazine uses. No one has had more of an impact on the world than Obama in the last year. But Andrew Sullivan suggests another person, Ian Fishback, and I think that's an excellent suggestion. This man needs more recognition for the moral courage he has shown.

Fishback is a captain in the U.S. Army, still on active duty. He has served multiple tours of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a West Point graduate. And 3 years ago he was one of the first people to blow the whistle on the torture and abuse of detainees by our military and the military and legal ambiguity used by the administration to encourage that abuse while maintaining some degree of deniability for their own responsibility. This is the text of a letter he wrote to John McCain:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 23, 2008 (boomark / email).