The Unreconstructed W
While I’m still on the subject of American moral incoherence, George Bush is not only the perfect example of it but for a large swatch of the American voting public, he’s some sort of moral paragon. Think about that for a minute.
But for me his hypocritical positions vis a vis waterboarding and torture (It’s only torture if someone gets caught doing it.) makes him a nihilist, at best.
For the record, Obama’s position of avoiding prosecuting war crimes for the sake of national unity isn’t much better. Still, at least he recognizes torture, all torture, as evil.
That’s more than poor George can muster from his empty little soul.
How do you find Kanye West more disgusting than Abu Ghraib?
…why was torturing detainees at Gitmo an act of heroism, while torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib an act of moral depravity, a disgrace to America’s good name?
The answer seems obvious — in the case of Abu Ghraib, Americans, faced with visual evidence of torture, recoiled. Fortunately for Bush, the CIA destroyed the visual documentation of their torturous interrogations, and those responsible will never be held to account. But there’s no genuine moral distinction here between what happened at Abu Ghraib and what happened at the black sites, or at Gitmo, that would justify being horrified by one and not the others. The lesson that was learned, by that administration and this one, is that the crime is worse than the cover-up. So cover it up.
Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
Queer. Contrarian. 
