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He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)

If you didn’t know that our current president only has female children you’d know it now: the man simply cannot withstand incessant, emotion-based nagging about trivial, unimportant shit — and yes, the fact that occasionally a captured terrorist we are questioning may get a couple of extra-hard slaps is trivial shit. Not that it will really matter in the field, where our armed forces will do what they have to do no matter what the pampered folks in their air-conditioned offices back home have to say about it. But this sends a great message to our enemies: “Yeah, we’re still softies at heart; we talk the talk, but we don’t really mean it!” I wonder which of our structures they’ll take out next. After all, it’s not like they’re really going to get punished for it. America’s like a dad all right — a dad who wants to be his juvenile delinquent kid’s best buddy, and thinks that a combo of stern talks, flattery, and buying the kid off with presents will do the trick.

I know I’m supposed to think John McCain is some great hero and have respect for his suffering and all, but I’ve got to wonder, does someone in Ho Chi Minh City have McCain’s nuts in a jar? What the hell is this torture bill bullshit supposed to prove? That the incidents at Abu Ghraib were not just severe breaches of discipline which were investigated and prosecuted by the military as soon as they came to light, but instead were officially-sanctioned acts upon prisoners and all this “investigation” and “trial” stuff is just a cover-up? Because that’s what’s going to be said now (or trumpeted even louder by those who have been claiming it all along), you just wait.

I’ve said it before, I will say it now: the only reply to repeated accusations that we “torture” the poor little tewwowists should have been an ominous silence. NO, I’m not saying we should have actually tortured anyone, but why the FUCK should any anti-American leftist dickwad have to know one way or the other? We can’t do anything right in the eyes of these people, so why the hell should we even be talking to them? Let them bleat and screech all they want — they will anyway. You watch them start complaining about every single nitpicky thing now that we’ve given them a little inch of what they want. You just watch.

I’m disgusted.

(Via Ace of Spades.)

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8 Responses to “He hit me (and it felt like a kiss)”

  1. Phil_Fraering Says:
    December 16th, 2005 at 8:31 am

    You may be interested in what Wretchard had to say on the matter:

    What the McCain Amendment will do is change the bean-counting rules. It will not create a framework in which real torture can be limited and stopped. That would require accepting moral responsibility for affirming practices which may be proscribed under the Geneva Conventions but fall short of real torture. That would mean explaining to the public that we are correspondingly determined to outlaw real, barbaric torture, even when by foreswearing it, public losses must be endured. Instead politicians will want to have it both ways and promise the public that they will neither soil their hands nor let the sleeping populace come to harm. No one who desires re-election can promise the voters only “blood, sweat and tears”. The time is long since past when politicians could say to a nation at war “death and sorrow will be the companion of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield.” That’s too much of a drag. Today even our conflicts, like our food, must be untouched by human hands.

    It will effectively rule out the use of drugs, sleep deprivation and threat, which arguably should not be classed as torture and make these methods unavailable for interrogation. When taken together with the public clamor to provide nearly 100% protection against terrorist attack, it will create a heightened demand for information which cannot be met, even partially, by practices which fall short of real torture but which exceed the restrictions of international conventions. That need will be filled instead by a black market for coercion organized by a variety of non-American entities for whom the rules do not apply, nor were ever expected to apply, for “we are better than our enemies”; and one might add, better than our friends.

    In practice terrorist suspects captured anywhere in the world won’t be taken to Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, or any “hell-hole” under US control. Nor will they be handled for an instant by US nationals or taken in raids involving a single American. No, that would be too dangerous — to the health of the captives, though thankfully for the politicians, not to the legal health of the Americans. They will be captured and retained by countries beyond the circle of attention. On the day the Amendment is passed there will be light everywhere except in the places of our soul where we don’t want to look.

    (BTW, I’ve also been meaning to write something re: the whole adulthood and war thing, but I’ll probably be busy over the next couple months getting ready to get sent to Siberia on a work assignment.)

  2. Susan B. Says:
    December 16th, 2005 at 9:03 am

    The sanctimonious whiners (**cough** Andrew Sullivan and Mark Shea **cough**) who bray on and on about “torture” while demonizing anyone who tries to actually define it will be happy about this. The rest of us realize this helps to make the job of defending this country that much harder and may cause more deaths of innocents. But who cares if a few innocents die as long as we stay pure and righteous in the eyes of the whiners, right? Sounds totally “pro-life” to me…

    I’m disgusted, too.

  3. AnneB Says:
    December 16th, 2005 at 4:30 pm

    Did you see the comment left by “Oregon Muse'’ over at Ace of Spades? It was a quote from Ann Coulter and said more or less “If Andrew Sullivan can go to New York City and buy it, then it isn’t torture.'’

    That was good for a laugh, but I don’t think we need even go to that extreme. Think of the treatments women pay for every day. Electrolysis, anyone? Or the full-body wax? Might work with some of those hairy mullah types.

    And I second Susan’s remarks about Mark Shea.

  4. radtrad Says:
    December 17th, 2005 at 8:35 am

    Andrea: Shea’s problem is not likely to be corrected soon. He has a pattern of “triangulating” between sides in order to appear morally superior to both of them. He actually thinks this is correct, so he can’t be accused of cynicism; but it can be very annoying to read and he isn’t going to change his mind regardless of what you say to him. Don’t let him get to you.

  5. andrea Says:
    December 17th, 2005 at 8:49 am

    Get to me? Why, he furnishes me with some of my favorite entertainment!

  6. brdavis Says:
    December 17th, 2005 at 11:14 am

    “…but I’ve got to wonder, does someone in Ho Chi Minh City have McCain’s nuts in a jar?”

    Well put! I can only hope that the phrase will become part of the anti-McCain campaign rhetoric.

    Senator His-Frickin’-Balls-Are-In-A-Jar-In-HCMC McCain.

    …if I wasn’t in the middle of moving, I’d (almost) feel the urge to post on these puissant putrified pissants of the “Royal” Senate.

  7. Michael Lonie Says:
    December 18th, 2005 at 4:07 pm

    This was the last straw for McCain with me. Slandering the US and abetting its enemies, oh very well done. If he is the Republican nominee in 2008 I will vote LIbertarian, no matter what idiot they nominate, even Harry Brown. If we are going to have Democratic policies legislated into law we might as well have Dems in office, who actually believe in such nonsense, not Packs who take such position in the belief that they will thereby earn “Strange New Respect” Awards from the MSM for such doings.

  8. rothy Says:
    December 19th, 2005 at 10:55 pm

    Im infuriated by what McCain has done. In my eyes, he nullified everything he did in Vietnam, not only by bullying everyone as well as the President into agreeing to this bill, but by way of the Campaign Finance Reform. As far as I am concerned, his service in Vietnam no longer exists and I will no longer call him an American. He is a TRAITOR.

    I have far more vile thoughts about McVain the Pain, but knowing how cybertext can come back to bite one, I had best keep it to my Real Time Space.