Posted on 08/31/2009 1:32:01 PM PDT by fiscon1
Andrew Sullivan, a writer for whom I once had great respect but whose work I long ago ceased following, throws his usual hit fit over my recent item on how the CIA is being reshackled in the war on terror. He claims that my reference to “aggressive interrogation of captured terrorists” is “The Latest Euphemism From the Torture Party” and challenges me to defend these interrogation practices in plain English.
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
Wasn’t much of a rebuttal...
You have to make up your mind what the actual threat is, and what are you prepared to do about it.
If its common criminality we’re dealing with, we have laws to deal with that and we have pretty strict standards as well we should.
If you’re a uniformed infantryman taken on the battlefield, again, we have pretty strict standards of treatment that apply.
But if you’re trying to smuggle a nuke into Boston Harbor, and its my job to stop you, there isn’t much I can imagine I wouldn’t do if it came down to it. Thats where we were at after 911. We sent our men to get the people who did this, and make sure it didn’t happen again. They did. We need to give them medals, and then get them back to work because it isn’t over yet.
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