It's obvious what these people are cranking up for: another attempt to defend frequent torture of Moslem detainees simply on the grounds that the Islamofascists are doing it to us.

For the record: we are all perfectly aware of the kind of slimy enemy we're dealing with here. We knew it long before 9-11. But these numbskulls don't KNOW we know it, and so the only reason they can come up with for our opposing frequent reciprocative torture is that we DON'T know it. The fact that torture, even in such a situation, is (A) strategically extremely counterproductive, and (B) outrageously immoral when it leads (as it inevitably will) to the frequent torture of innocent people, hasn't occurred to them yet.

Posted by: Bruce Moomaw at June 4, 2007 12:10 AM | Permalink to this comment