No apology required.

Editor,

Bradley Manning's apology reminds me of a Stalinist show trial.

Torture the guy with solitary confinement and various degradations as were inflicted on Menahem Mendel Beilis in Bernard Malamud's novel "The Fixer," and voila, an apology to the American people for revealing war crimes by the American military.

For every article about whether Bradley Manning is a hero or a traitor, I would like to see one about what other crimes the American military and its civilian chain of command are concealing in the mountain of classified documents they are hiding from the American public.

If you read books like "The Politics of Heroin" by Alfred McCoy, "Dirty Wars" by Jeremy Scahill, or "The Great War for Civilisation" by Robert Fisk, the answer is not hard to imagine.

Bradley Manning has nothing to apologize for, and no amount of apology by the American government can ever undo the horrors it has visited in virtually every corner of the world.

Re: "Manning, Facing Prison for Leaks, Apologizes at Court-Martial Trial" (8/15/2013)