‘I used to say of apartheid that it dehumanized its perpetrators as much as, if not more than, its victims,’ Desmond Tutu wrote recently in the New York Times. He asked, ‘Do the United States and its people really want to tell those of us who live in the rest of the world that our lives are not of the same value as yours?’
Tutu’s words appeared in a short letter, tucked quietly into the Times’ editorial page. The subject that provoked his indignant correspondence was drone strikes.
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