ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com - 12/18/2008
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Ross gives us a fairly thoughtful untangling of his complicated feelings about torture. If I may, I'd quibble with one point. Ross puts Bush's torture advocacy in historical perspective, correctly point out that while torture may be a betrayal of American ideals, it actually isn't a betrayal of ...
rossdouthat.theatlantic.com - 12/17/2008
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rossdouthat.theatlantic.com —
I haven't written anything substantial, ever, about America's
treatment of detainees in the War on Terror. There...
are good reasons for this, and bad ones. Or maybe there's only one reason, and it's probably a bad one - a desire to avoid taking on a ...
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Thinking About Torture
motherjones.com - 12/17/2008
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motherjones.com —
TORTURE.... Responding to Andrew Sullivan, Reuel Marc Gerecht
defends his defense of torture: I take it from...
your post that if you had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a ...
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Torture
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 12/16/2008
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Reuel Marc Gerecht responds to my postings yesterday:
I take it from your post that if you...
had been confronted on 7 September 2001 with a captured Khalid Shaykh Muhammad or Abu Zubaydah and you knew that a major, mass-casualty terrorist strike was ...
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In Defense Of Torture
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Torture And The Bomb
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Ta-Nehisi quibbles with Ross.
What Would Gore Have Done?
Ross Douthat —
Responding to my reference to Truman and the atomic bomb in my rambling torture post, Ta-Nehisi asks an important question: [Ross argues] that basically anyone other potential president
in Truman's shoes would have done the same thing as Truman. But you
simply can't make the same argument about Bush. Indeed, it's not even
clear that every potential Republican president would have approved of
water-boarding. I think you can fairly argue that Truman was in
something of a historical--if not moral--bind. Some people will argue
that Bush was also. But ...
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