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Torturers.

09-Dec-14

indolently I don’t like to linger very long on what human beings do to one another – it’s not really the kind of thing that makes one better.  I don’t like Holocaust Museums, and Holocaust Studies, and all that.  The only decent reaction I can come up with is something like the Nuremberg Trials – put […]

Responsibility to Prosecute.

14-Nov-11

irregularly Sullivan confesses that “Greenwald has a point” – that one of the reasons why so many Republican presidential candidates support waterboarding is because there are no repercussions for it.  It is just another tactic in a game to them.  I’m sure that waterboarding a dog would land any of them in jail, a la Michael […]

Establishment Christianity.

21-Dec-10

Astonishing statement by a U.S. servicemember on DADT, reported to me by a friend: “This is the first time my government and my religion are in conflict.” What an indictment of establishment Christianity.  On the normal processes of military operation – killing, torture, violence – a soldier can see his Church as favorable or irrelevant. […]

Life Without Principle.

09-Sep-10

Two pieces, by Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, on Obama’s policy of torturing human beings for whatever an American president’s ends may be, without limitation.  The national malaise continues – how much sadness I see in people’s lives! even people a decade younger than myself are locked in it – and Obama’s practicality (i.e., lack […]

American Exceptionalism.

15-Feb-10

When you hear people say all over the world, “Bin Laden was the first terrorist… Bush was the second terrorist,” this is what they mean.  If our elected leaders do not want to abide by the Geneva Convention, they should pull out of it.  If they want to torture American citizens they should write new […]

Why you shouldn’t make historical movies too soon…

22-Apr-09

Look at all the new material Oliver Stone could have had if he had just waited.  It really is astounding how it all comes together.  I’ll let Andrew Sullivan do the talking: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/04/and-where-the-whole-thing-becomes-a-movie-.html#more

War Crimes.

17-Apr-09

The release of the torture memos by Obama yesterday was a heroic act in terms of the president’s desire to restore our country’s democracy.  It may be the case that torture is democratically acceptable to most Americans – that in fact this country wants to go the way of the Romans, into increased violence and […]