Reply #86: Sorry, not such a good analogy

[skepticscott]

The difference is that your house fire will be completely and forever extinguished in a very short time, and you will know exactly what that situation will look like (in any event, police or fire investigators usually chase arsonists, not the guys with the hoses, but we'll leave that for now). The problems that Nance says need to be solved before we can give our attention to prosecuting war criminals will either never be solved or, if they are, other equally pressing problems will take their place. Prosecuting criminals from the Bush administration will never have a significantly higher priority for any Democratic administration or for the American public than it does right now. If you want to argue that these other problems should always take precedence (or that you'd rather have your fire put out, even if it means the arsonists will get off scot-free forever), that's fine, but you can't pretend that waiting for conditions to become more favorable is a reasonable course, because it ain't gonna happen.