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Originally Posted by roachboy
...what is bewildering in the responses above that tend toward a support for the administration's policies is that what you are defending is the use of torture.
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Since I am not a politician bound to the laws of democracy and popular approval, I tend to differ (publicly, anyway) from say, John McCain, in my beliefs about how a major world power should operate in a hostile world. McCain says that what separates them from us is our superior moral qualities. I disagree with this.
I say that what separates us from them fall more along the lines of such concepts as intelligence, cunning, adaptability, flexibility, industry, creativity and ability, rather than any divinely attributed quality of superiority. And while there are established tenets of conventional warfare, there are also established tenets of unconventional warfare equally relevant. This is not to say that qualities such as empathy, benevolence and kindness are entirely irrelevant either.
So my opinion in regards to this hypocritical discussion of selective outrage is amusement. Surely, you and yours would condone with the greatest amount of merriment and moral approval, the drawing and quartering of every single member of the Bush Administration starting with Bush himself - after which you would have the boulevards lined with carbonfibre spears, upon which sit the severed heads of the entire Administration. It is pointless (intended) to try to convince me otherwise.