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Originally Posted by hiredgun
If you want to claim that waterboarding is justified, go ahead. I am more than willing to engage you in conversation about whether we can execute the form of torture known as waterboarding and still retain the moral high ground. But the therapeutic attempt to redefine the terms of debate in a way that leaves intact your increasingly dissonant framework of self-righteousness.... this seems to me kind of pathetic.
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I view it as a 'mild' form of torture, only I really don't care if we are using it or not.
We can maintain the moral high ground if we like, as unlike our opponents who behead people and put it on the internet, or cut off body parts, we do no permanent harm with it. They still have all their pieces in working order when its done, nor are they in a body bag.
We are fighting an unconventional
UN-uniformed enemy who views civilians as targets. If we want to play geneva convention games, they should be shot as spies.