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Talking Points

by Thomas Sowell

One of the many signs of the degeneration of our times is how many serious, even life-and-death, issues are approached as talking points in a game of verbal fencing. Nothing illustrates this more than the fatuous, and even childish, controversy about "torturing" captured terrorists.

People's actions often make far more sense than their words. Most of the people who are talking lofty talk about how we mustn't descend to the level of our enemies would themselves behave very dif ...

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Posted by: Robert Neville
Comment: #1
Wed May 13, 2009 6:34 AM

Brilliantly put, as usual. This whole "enhanced interrogation" issue is preposterous and reminds me of the T-shirt I saw that said, "Gun Control: the theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound in his chest". No amount of logic can convince me that a million dead people at the hands of a WMD used by some terrorist would rest well in their graves knowing that information which could have been extracted from said terrorist by enhanced interrogation wasn't gathered because we didn't want to "stoop to their level". This is a battle like we've never faced before and we need to do everything possible to win, even if it means being nasty and mean and inhuman. Sorry....I'd put the electrodes to anybody who cut off the head of one of my children and I wouldn't even flinch when I hit the "power" switch. Perhaps we could simply offer up all the bleeding heart liberals to the terrorists as a sacrifice.....maybe they'd leave us alone then. And I'm sure the libs would be more than willing to lay down their collective lives for their beliefs since that's essentially what they're doing by removing arrows that keep us safe from our quiver of tricks.

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