Tortured Logic
Last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, correspondent John Oliver examined the issue of torture.
It is incredibly shameful that the use of torture by the U.S. is a matter of contention at all in this country, much less between opposing political viewpoints. (Sign me up with Denzel on this one.)
Conservatives like to play with words and so “torture” becomes “enhanced interrogation techniques,” a term that originated in Nazi Germany, to hide the embarrassing reality and its illegality. The Daily Show’s Oliver parodied this strange defense while arguing the conservative torture-enabler line, “If we do do those things, they must not be torture.”
It is another chapter in the absurdity of what has become of the post-9/11 national security policy: defend our values by completely abandoning them at home and abroad.
(Hat tip: Nicole Belle, Crooks & Liars)
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