How Not to Argue Against Torture
The Case of the Ticking Time Bomb: Or, How Not to Argue Against Torture
by John Turri
Ted Rall is rightly outraged at the Bush Administration for the culture of abuse torture that has blossomed under their watch. He's also rightly outraged over their plan to permanently imprison hundreds of enemy combatants people because they "don't have enough evidence" to bring them to trial. No doubt he's also outraged that the Bush Administration is considering fielding death- and kidnapping squads in Iraq because, well, because "we can't just go on [there] as we are." I agree with Rall on all that. But we shouldn't endorse his argument against the use of torture. In fact, we should repudiate it....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Turri0114.htm
by John Turri
Ted Rall is rightly outraged at the Bush Administration for the culture of abuse torture that has blossomed under their watch. He's also rightly outraged over their plan to permanently imprison hundreds of enemy combatants people because they "don't have enough evidence" to bring them to trial. No doubt he's also outraged that the Bush Administration is considering fielding death- and kidnapping squads in Iraq because, well, because "we can't just go on [there] as we are." I agree with Rall on all that. But we shouldn't endorse his argument against the use of torture. In fact, we should repudiate it....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Turri0114.htm
Starmail - 14. Jan, 16:17
