>>Conflating us with the Khmer Rouge
And that's no sh*t.
David Corn has a hysterical column in which he posits the following logic: The Khmer Rouge used waterboarding. We used waterboarding. Therefore we are like the Khmer Rouge.
Hell, he even posts a painting of waterboarding in action, painted by a Khmer victim.
Frankly, Corn is insulting.
First of all - and I've been meaning to post this for some time - There's no way I think waterboarding DOESN'T qualify as a form of torture. For that reason I believe it should be prohibited under the Geneva conventions. Lawful combatants, so long as they remain lawful, should not be subjected to this kind of treatment.
Waterboarding is torture.
On the other hand, I see no reason on the planet why someone like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should enjoy any such protection. We got information from Mohammed that has broken up terror plots and saved hundreds - perhaps thousands of lives.
Must be nice to be a columnist for The Nation. The Nation allows Corn to live such a sheltered life that he doesn't need to consider tradeoffs. Obviously, Corn is much more concerned about sparing a terrorist, murdering, sociopathic thug two minutes of discomfort and even panic than he is about something so trivial as the lives of hundreds of innocent mothers, fathers, daughters and sons.
Let me think about Benalshibh bawling and sputtering like a bitch for a couple of minutes because someone put a wet rag on his face and see if I feel diminished.
Nope... not feeling it yet.
Nope. Still nothing.
Nope.
Maybe if I thought about it reeeeeeal hard.
Nope. Nothing.
Zilch.
Doesn't bother me.
Those pangs of guilt are sizzling away like drops of water on a hot iron. It's kind of cool to listen to the hissing noise, though.
Corn is insulting to our servicemen, who do not deserve to be conflated with or compared to the murderers of the Khmer Rouge.
He is insulting to the innocent victims of the Khmer Rouge, who do not deserve to be conflated with terrorist dogs.
He is insulting to his readers, who deserve better than the kind of sloppy logic being served up here. The Khmer Rouge were not evil because they waterboarded. They were evil because they murdered. They waterboarded to further the cause of evil.
They were evil because they killed, mutilated, raped, and disfigured their innocent victims. Not because they caused criminals to panic under a wet rag for 30 seconds.
The Khmer Rouge did it to force confessions as part of their machination of murder.
The United States has done it - successfully - to prevent murder.
If you read the entire Corn peace, you would see that Corn doesn't even throw a bone at the argument. No gray area is even acknowledged. The Khmer Rouge had waterboards. Therefore we should be lumped in with the Khmer Rouge.
This is what passes for logic and reasoning on the left today.
Corn is one of their best thinkers.
Pathetic.
Perspective, people.
Splash, out
Jason
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