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« on: May 10, 2011, 10:39:34 pm » |
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Let's make one thing perfectly clear, I have no doubt what so ever this is all politics. If the killing of OBL happened under Bush, we'd see the exact same argument...but in reverse. Liberals would be lamenting no extraction and wondering if the head shot was needed...and Repubs would be making the Liberals look like assholes for even questioning why we put a bullet in the skull of the person who masterminded the death of over 3,000 Americans on 9/11. It's a game based on ideological stance, not personal reflection.
Torture...the reason I view it as separate and apart from a mob hit...is what ole Shepard was screaming about above. We have them in custody. They're not going anywhere. Our treatment of them, on our dime, is entirely different than whacking someone on foreign soil...it's viewed differently. Maybe it's the most inane semantics, but it does very much reflect who and what we are on a different level. Well pull the trigger just like any other nation our there if you put yourself on our "you're fucked" list. But on our soil, in our custody, the barbarity stops. We're better than you, even if we act like you outside our borders...inside...our disgust is tempered with a higher and better concept and practice of justice and mercy.
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