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I have a question. Do any of you feel safer Knowing that somebody has the Balls to stoop to the level of the terrorist and maybe create some terror or our own?
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no.
the only ideological position that this or any other american administration could possibly use to fight "terrorism" in any meaningful way is as a defense of the rule of law.
the bush people seem to see themselves as above the law.
so what you have is a conflict between two types of the same thing, one state, one not.
the authorization of this type of tactics originated with cheney's office.
the request that cia ops be exempted from a law that would require respect for the geneva convention originated with his office.
dick cheney should be understood as authorizing criminal acts.
he should be worrying about war crimes.
he should be facing prosecution.
at that point, we'll see how much this administration really cares about the rule of law.
but at the moment, the americans are in this respect are deploying a form of state terrorism. all this does is undermine the ability of this administration (and possibly others to follow) to make claims about any higher motive for conflict or even political action. you should perhaps think about what this would mean. the picture is not good.
fill me in on how exactly crimes against humanity advance the cause of anti-terrorism?