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To: Neocon who wrote (127211)	3/23/2004 4:53:53 PM
From: E	Respond to of 281500

Anyway, I am not denying a mistake. I am saying that, if anything, it makes the current Administration's policy even more correct, by creating a moral obligation to clean up the mess. I'm making the simple point that the moral obligation isn't the reason that was given to get us into the war, so can hardly be called "correct policy." It's a convenience, now, in the ignoratio elenchi category -- that is, it's being used to change the subject, with an emotional appeal, from the reasons they used to get us into the war to the reasons we can feel better about being in the war despite the absence of WMD, al-Q links, or connection to 9/11 -- and despite the open question of whether we're in greater or less danger from those who hate us now. And the fact that the torture chambers are closed does, in fact, make me feel better about the war, and its myriad costs. That's why those images are evoked so frequently. We're glad as human beings that those chambers are shut down, and whether it was the right thing for us to do in the long run is another question. I'd be glad if any torture chamber was shut down, and I'm sure you would, too. It is not our "policy" to shut down torture chambers of tyrants, however.