I wonder if the new ban on Nazis receiving Social Security has a Cheney exemption?
]]>My sad suspicion is that the Cheney regime had similar motivations.
I don’t know what to think about living in a nation that tortures. Living in a nation that tortures. If I had said, twenty years ago, that I was going to live in a nation that tortures when I was in my 50’s, people would have asked me what third world nation I was moving to. Now I know. It’s called the United States of America. SIGH.
]]>That was the influence of Stalinism and Russian advisors. Ho Chi Minh traveled widely in the West and was educated in the Soviet Union. That was their basis for their agitprop. They were also influence by British and French colonial practices. The use of torture in Asia has a long history as part of punishments for offenses, and compliance with authorities, but no history of attempting to gain information from its use. Only the West is under the delusion that it can lead to the truth.
]]>I suspect the Busheviks felt the same way. All they cared about was getting confessions of crimes against humanity to prove how evil and depraved those terrierists were and thus whip up their domestic populace to support the war more fiercely. And for abusing these POW’s…. crickets from most of the “civilized” world.
So it goes.
-BT
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