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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
So you can't bring yourself to say that the North Vietnamese were wrong to torture U.S. airmen because they might have gotten effective information out of it. I'd like to think that we are better than that, too, but 30 years ago there would have been no real disagreement in this country that what the North Vietnamese were doing was wrong, and now we find ourselves on a slippery slope.
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It's always wrong when it's happening to your guys. Different story when you're the torturer. We're nothing in this country if not unbelievably self-righteous and stuck on this silly notion that, as Zell Miller amazingly put it, "God is not indifferent to the future of the United States."
We're not on any slippery slope. The only difference between now and then is the media is a lot more powerful. We did it then and no one knew. That we said it was wrong means nothing.
