What is f*cking wrong with these people?
WaPo uses up column-inches on a column on why the US pro-torture crowd really ought to get off scot-free. And it's a real knee-slapper. Well, forehead-slapper, in this case.
Catch this:
"In the end, [stopping additional US torture] may be more important than punishing those who acted wrongly in pursuit of what they thought was right."
Oh. So all is forgiven if the torturers' hearts were in the right place?
Final Solution much, ma'am?
Pol Pot killing fields excusable since motivated merely by misguided childhood dweams of agwawian utopia?
(Slaps forehead. Hurts self. Groans.)
Hey lady, torturers' hearts are always in the right place, had you not noticed?
People are always doing really shitty things for the very best of reasons. That's why we have the rule of law.
Or used to. Till the feckless, reckless, out of control Bushist fascists came along, fueled by hubris and contempt for the rule of law. Oh, and you know, by a sharp streak of sadism .
But hey. That was then, this is now. Marcus [e.g. the establishment] wants these guys [Rummy, Cheney, Gen. Geoffrey Miller, etc.] to get away with it.
Well, I don't. How about you?
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1 comment:
no blood for hubris:
It's a time for "national healing" unless, of course, you're dead or permanently fucked up as a result of being tortured; then? not so much.
I would like to see all of those scumbags in the dock at The Hague.
Wow, my word verification is "b lucid", coooooooooooooool!
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