Bottom line for its opponents, and they don't at all mind saying so.
"It's immoral," they say, as though that should end the matter.
And some of them really mean that.
They say "It's immoral to argue in favor of torture and immoral to claim it works," and go on to suggest suppression.
Meanwhile, there are others who take a quite different view.
Perhaps they have other moral opinions.
Perhaps they regard moral opinions with the scorn expressed in the military by the dictum, "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one."
I Am Not Sorry the CIA Waterboarded
Bret Stephens rehearses the crimes of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who, he says, was waterboarded 183 times, and is dismayed the fellow is still alive.
Having read the list, I think that if he were being kept alive so that he might suffer pains that death will end that would be OK.
But that is not why he won't be executed, if he is not.
And that is appalling.
And yet he takes his turn at playing the moralist, perhaps to show the world he's a good fellow, after all, despite his taste for waterboarding and the death penalty.
I am sorry that Sen. Rockefeller saw nothing amiss with the idea of handing over KSM to the Cairo Cattle-Prod Crew.
This is rightly known as torture-by-proxy.
It is wrong.
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