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Quit Torturing Me About Torture
In recent days we have seen such a proliferation of news about torture, the torture memos and so forth, that I need not recount it here. To me, here are the salient points, in my humble opinion. 1) Abu Ghraib: Has been over-hyped. The acts were atrocious, but hardly the worst thing to happen to anybody, unless one considers humiliation worse ...
Posted to Today's Papers by mathpol on April 20, 2009
News Flash: Christopher Hitchens Seeks Catholic Confessional
I was surprised to read Christopher Hitchens today, riding high on his moral horse as to the political, cultural and economic predations of Maximum Leader Robert Mugabe in his current Country of Residence, Zimbabwe. What people like Hitchens never seem to understand, is that morality is never just for other people, or leaders, or religious types. ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on June 10, 2008
Hitchens grossly understates the case against the CIA
Since its creation in 1948 the CIA has been home to murderers, torturers, vigorous opponents of democracy and equally vigorous supporters of blood soaked tyranny. The easiest examples are the takeover of the South Vietnamese occupation from the French in 1955 (you know where that led), collusion with the Greek Colonels, Franco and Pinochet's ...
Posted to Fighting Words by anarch on December 11, 2007