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The Depravity Of The Pro-Torture Right
Oct 9 2013
Some
small part of me still wants to believe that Don Rumsfeld is not a
monster; that Dick Cheney is not a foul, unrepentant war criminal at
large; that Joe Lieberman actually has some moral reservations about the
torture his friends devised and perpetrated against thousands of
victims, especially given the fact that the torture program – even its
name – is indistinguishable in key respects from the “verschaerfte Vernehmung”
techniques used by the Gestapo. Part of me wants still to believe that
these decisions were anguished ones, made in terrible times, surrounded
by profound ignorance and fear and imposed reluctantly for fear of the
consequences of inaction, with moral trepidation.The first reason I cannot believe this is that none of the individuals involved in the torture program has shown the slightest remorse or even moral qualms about their decision to violate one of the most basic international moral norms against mistreatment of prisoners, in an international system called the Geneva Conventions that the US was integral to setting up. They have not even had the grace to remain silent. They appear in public, these braggers of their own barbarism. They get feted by a former attorney-general! They get bankrolled by men like Laurence Grafstein or Michael Hertog or Michael Steinhardt, men who I naively thought opposed this kind of thing that was authorized and enforced under Bush and Cheney:
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