It should be unacceptable, for example, for Congress to block the release of 86 Guantánamo Bay detainees cleared by a committee of national-security officials. Not even the revelations by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that no one is exempt from the possibility of US surveillance have stirred Americans to demand a new approach.
但奥巴马无法独自完成这一点——而如今，美国公众和美国国会似乎都没有依照道德指南针所知的方向前进。有些事情本应是不可接受的，比如，国会否决了国家安全官员委员会的释放86位关塔那摩囚犯的决定。就连前情报承包商斯诺登曝光没人能摆脱美国的监控也没有让美国人站出来要求变换方式。