Posted on 08/17/2006 10:59:10 AM PDT by drew
Tortured logic By Karol Sheinin · August 17, 2006 11:30 AM
Andrew Sullivan, clearly wanting to engage with the "deranged", has asked that I provide evidence that an attack was imminent, and therefore, as I argued, that torture to obtain information about the impending attack was necessary and legitimate.
The entirety of Sullivan's argument, in particular his criticism of me, actually makes no sense. He writes:
"I have yet to read any evidence that an attack was "imminent". All the stories I've read have argued that the plot was for a dummy-run. Maybe Karol Sheinin has sources that I haven't read. If she has, she should provide them, or correct her post. If she has a different understanding of the term "imminent," then it would be helpful for her to say so."
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
That is the sum and substance of his political stance.
He won't realize the danger until they come to cut off his head.
They had airline tickets for today.
Their tickets wer for yesterday, but that's nit. Off with his head!
By all means, let them perfect their plot unhindered. We must wait for the day of the actual attack to act.
-PJ
That is my understanding, too.
Also there was at least one "martyr" videotape found.
I have read two sites where these two facts are denied, with no documentation other than wishful thinking or dissimulation; that makes it possible, then, that the "government conspiracy" theory has a prayer of being taken seriously.
Sullivan's comments feel like what you get when you have to get something, anything in. They read like the rantings of someone who is trying to hold it all together, but doesn't quite make it. Perhaps he is having personal problems.
Can you say "counting deck chairs on the Titanic?"
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