July 06, 2008
McCain's tortured views
This fact, that his genetic military being and his 'tortured' view of what the military and diplomatic lessons of Vietnam are should disqualify McCain from America's commander in chief position.
McCain's views on Vietnam are antiquarian and dumb; tactically, politically and in relation to sound foreign policy. Even in hindsight he is rigid and wrong. He was wrong on Iraq. He remains so and is quite suspect as a leader who does not exhibit understanding that the big picture is so much more than setting off to battle because we can.
Labels: dumb, Iraq, McCain, rigid, torture, Vietnam
January 03, 2008
Conjugate America: I torture, you torture, we torture.
Ode to Bush and Cheney
( February 2004 )
Thugs in suits,
wearing crosses,
speaking Jesus,
doing trash.
Blood of Inquisitors,
long cold,
warms
Thugs in suits,
wearing crosses,
speaking Jesus,
doing trash.
Read this poem as a poetic prediction as to where this evango' phony amoral mercenary hiring administration was going to lead America.
It was written before Abu Ghraib and water boarding became verbal markers for the demise of America's positive self image.
Labels: abu ghraib, torture, water boarding
June 07, 2007
Bush's Love of Torture: Ethical Equivalents
In the movies we see the German Commandant line up the town villagers. He asks for specific intelligence regarding the commission of a crime. When he does not receive the intel he requires, he then lines up a dozen citizens and shoots them.
Torturing people to the point of psychological collapse is almost an ethical equivalent to the brutality handed out by the Commandant.
If the interrogators, when causing permanent systemic damage to their subjects through sensory deprivation, are fully aware that some or most of these subjects have no actionable intelligence then they are deliberately destroying innocent lives as an official process.
It is at this point that the ethics of the Commandant's decision and Bush's mind set, to employ torture, become one and the same.
A question also arises as to upon who does America employ life destroying torture. Apparently, sub rosa, torturing Arabs and followers of Islam is today acceptable. Perhaps torturing foreign born prison gang leaders might be the next acceptable venue for torture. And next?
--craig johnson--Labels: benumbed citizenry, Bush Admin, CIA, faith based initiatives, intelligence, sensory deprivation, thugs, torture
