Torture Is About Us

A MAN STANDING NAKED in a cold room for days on end, with Snoop Dog blaring continuously and a sharp object inserted up his rectum, is decidedly unlikely to answer questions accurately about his whereabouts and activities on some certain long ago day. Thinking becomes confused. Responses become solicitous, garbles, and erroneous, impelled by an urgent necessity of pleasing the compelling inquisitor, at whatever cost, especially truth. Senator John McCain, a rare sensible republican politician, understand this intimately, firsthand. McCain also understands that the United States of America is a great and good country, or one which could be, and is, or ought to be, superior to and above torture. Two wrongs don't make a right, and one does not justify bad behavior merely by pointing to the bad behavior of one's enemies. The other republicans, the God-fearing ones who pompously proclaim America's superiority with such fervor as to raise questions of motivation, don't seem to agree, not surprisingly. The right wingers who cherish the Lord and america's superiority of purpose seem to condone, even advocate, torture. Behold the superior moral standards of America' super patriotic Christian patriots! The United states of America is simply too good to condone or to use torture, aside from the universal illegality of it. (United Nations agreements, the Geneva Convention). As Senator McCain simply, eloquently stated: " torture is not so much about our enemies, its about us".