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Thread #120320 Message #2635341
Posted By: CarolC
18-May-09 - 10:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obama and torture
Subject: RE: BS: Obama and torture
The reason we are having this discussion is because as the world's biggest and most powerful superpower, we only believe in "might makes right" any more. We no longer believe in ethics or the rule of law (if we ever did, which I tend to doubt). Approaching it from the perspective of ethics and rule of law isn't going to work any more for the people in the US, because those who advocate torture don't give a shit about those things, and there isn't anyone in the world who can force the most powerful country in the world to start caring about those things. The only way to persuade them to stop doing it is to show them how it damages the US more than it helps the US. That's just the way it is.