US owes the Rosenbergs an apology
Thursday 01 November 2012
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EmailIt was interesting to hear a Guantanamo Bay prisoner argue that he cannot be tried as an enemy combatant for alleged involvement in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, as the US was not at war with al-Qaeda until September 2001 (M Star October 25).
It reminds me of the ill-fated Rosenbergs who were executed for alleged spying activities for the USSR in 1953.
It could have been argued that they were not in the service of a enemy combatant as the USSR was not at war with the US in the 1950s, at least not in a literal sense only an ideological sense of the term.
Therefore, the couple should be given a posthumous and long overdue pardon on that identical basis alone.
Phil Brand
London
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