THE COSTS OF THE TORTURE ROOM - IM SHATTEN
Focusing on the purported benefits (of torture) without enumerating the costs is a typical slight of hand from the Bush-Cheney huggers, like Krauthammer.
Here is a shorthand (even though there are long alternatives).
- 1. The U.S. and our allies will likely be "hit" by some other act of terrorism.
- 2.Terrorists get out of jail, if you make Krauthammerian "exceptions".
There is no 100% safe, even if we wanted it. Al qa'ida is probably not the last terrorist network to ever arise. We have not seen the end of war or political violence.
Maybe, it's not until we let a terrorist go that we will be forced to understand that there ARE costs to Bush-Cheney safety, ...
Our hands tied, we will continue with the Bush-era tribunals-cum-detention-torture-cover-ups.
No way that Justice is served if you torture someone and get nothing of value. In fact, the grave injustice served on that person is of such a quality that they have a case for their release (and more). No prior crime, known or unknown, justifies torture, does it? To some unknown measure, all one creates, wittingly or no, is a blood-lust program, not a pick-me-up for Porter-Goss's 'global human condition'.Our hands tied, we will continue with the Bush-era tribunals-cum-detention-torture-cover-ups.
THE "GOOD NEWS" FOR TORTURISTS AMONG US
There is a lot more that can go under each of those paragraphs. But, it may not matter.
Our hands tied, we will continue with the Bush-era tribunals-cum-detention-cover-ups.
Maybe, it's not until we let a terrorist go that we will be forced to understand that there ARE costs to Bush-Cheney safety, and it could not have made us and our allies fully safe anyway.
