Thursday, May 06, 2004
Iraq prison torture: "Bad for the country"
Bad for the tortured, certainly. And bad for the torturers, even.
But the meme is spreading that this episode is "bad for the country."
But why, exactly? Because it makes it harder for us to keep occupying Iraq?
If it fundamentally discredits PNAC project for an American world empire based on military force—and these are the guys who hijacked 9/11 to get us into the Iraq mess—then that's a good thing for the country, right?
Prevents the Army from being entirely privatized, saves a lot of lives, maybe innoculates us just a little against militarism, saves the Constitution, saves the Republic, right?
What's not to like, here?
But the meme is spreading that this episode is "bad for the country."
But why, exactly? Because it makes it harder for us to keep occupying Iraq?
If it fundamentally discredits PNAC project for an American world empire based on military force—and these are the guys who hijacked 9/11 to get us into the Iraq mess—then that's a good thing for the country, right?
Prevents the Army from being entirely privatized, saves a lot of lives, maybe innoculates us just a little against militarism, saves the Constitution, saves the Republic, right?
What's not to like, here?
