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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I'll back you up on this when you develop an even-handed view and stop beating this torture story to death. Yeh, we know, Ty - the US is torturing people.
Here's a tip - It isn't a central issue in the debate over anything we're doing in the world. It's small issue liberals have glommed onto so they can give themselves a moral pedestal.
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I don't view the issue as trivial. We've ceded the moral high ground that we were able to effectively use as a negotiating point with other countries. I remember reading an editorial a few years ago by a conservative who loved the Miranda law because all the cop movies and tv shows, shown around the world, recited a list of rights to criminals. People living in repressive regimes could see that in our country even criminals had rights that the average citizen in their shithole did not have. We've blown that.
