in which case, any law that exists, any international convention or agreement there is which bans torture is nothing other than a cheap instrument to be used in the exercise of power. so any ethical argument against torture, any conclusion that the international community---including the united states----might enter into to prevent, to the greatest possible extent, a reversion to barbarism in the form of torture is only meaningful in that context.
because in the end what matters is not whether you torture people, but whether you win or lose a war. and torture only exists as an extension of losing a war.
that's funny.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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