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: remiss
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I forgot to blog against torture, mostly because I don't regard myself as much of a blogger, and could add nothing of substance, but it's still worth repeating what others have said: It's immoral to drag the country down to the level of movie villains for the sake of something that, even if it worked, would negate the ideals this country supposedly stands for. It's going to take years to recover from the blot it has put on the soul of the nation -- and that won't start until we bleeding stop doing it.
And the kicker, of course, is that it doesn't work. Torturing somebody we picked up by mistake or to satisfy a fellow countryman's grudge never got us any worthwhile information, never made a ticking bomb get stopped, never saved a single life. So far, it's just made us more enemies.
Mission accomplished, geniuses! You didn't just torture a bunch of foreigners and Americans who were probably more innocent than guilty, you tortured the Constitution and the laws and treaties that explicitly forbade it with a bunch of sleazy lawyeristic nonsense. You tortured the language to pretend it was something other than it was.
I invite everybody who says waterboarding (only the most notorious of an array of nasty tactics used and perfected by a roster of our country's most pungent enemies) isn't torture to submit to it at intervals. See how it feels.
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I forgot to blog against torture, mostly because I don't regard myself as much of a blogger, and could add nothing of substance, but it's still worth repeating what others have said: It's immoral to drag the country down to the level of movie villains for the sake of something that, even if it worked, would negate the ideals this country supposedly stands for. It's going to take years to recover from the blot it has put on the soul of the nation -- and that won't start until we bleeding stop doing it.
And the kicker, of course, is that it doesn't work. Torturing somebody we picked up by mistake or to satisfy a fellow countryman's grudge never got us any worthwhile information, never made a ticking bomb get stopped, never saved a single life. So far, it's just made us more enemies.
Mission accomplished, geniuses! You didn't just torture a bunch of foreigners and Americans who were probably more innocent than guilty, you tortured the Constitution and the laws and treaties that explicitly forbade it with a bunch of sleazy lawyeristic nonsense. You tortured the language to pretend it was something other than it was.
I invite everybody who says waterboarding (only the most notorious of an array of nasty tactics used and perfected by a roster of our country's most pungent enemies) isn't torture to submit to it at intervals. See how it feels.
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