Friday, March 14, 2008
A question that I keep running across in the press is this: Is waterboarding torture?
Are they kidding?
Of course it's torture. Just read the description. Entertaining a debate on that question at all is nothing more than so much mincing of words so that someone can claim that the US doesn't engage in "torture". It's fundamentally dishonest. Better to simply say that yes, in some cases we do, but we do our best to not let it get out of hand. Better perhaps, but sometimes politically unacceptable.
It would be nice if it wasn't that way.
Are they kidding?
Of course it's torture. Just read the description. Entertaining a debate on that question at all is nothing more than so much mincing of words so that someone can claim that the US doesn't engage in "torture". It's fundamentally dishonest. Better to simply say that yes, in some cases we do, but we do our best to not let it get out of hand. Better perhaps, but sometimes politically unacceptable.
It would be nice if it wasn't that way.
# posted by goldpython @ 10:23 AM 
