Thread: Waterboarding: The great liberal non-story of the decade
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Old 02-06-2008, 01:15 PM
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Originally Posted by justabubba View Post
in the future one of our troops will be tortured
i'm predicting that all of the chickehawks who advocate torture as an acceptable practice by us will be up in arms (someone else - in military uniform - will be carrying them, however)
there will be a hue and cry that the enemy is despicable and without honor because they tortured an American
i hope that day of reckoning is very distant. but when it happens, know that you have given them license to act in that barbaric fashion - just like us
There will be a day? I'm pretty sure I'd consider beheading someone or raping them torture. So that day has come and gone and it had nothing to do with our use of waterboarding. When the US starts torturing prisoners for kicks as official policy (as Muslim extremists have done) then your comparison will be valid. Until then, torture to stop an imminent attack is not even in the same ballpark.
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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.


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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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