Ted Rall: "Torture Apologists"

"If American life and values change radically because of the attacks,' ABC's Sam Donaldson wrote, ten days after 9/11, 'the terrorists will have won.'

Well.

...a legion of right-wing fifth columnists is finally revealing themselves as a band of wannabe fascists. Incredible as it seems, these "Americans" actually approve of torture...

As Bush Administration apologists point out, there are worse fates-- far worse fates--than being stripped, beaten, bitten or even anally raped. A worse fate befell Nick Berg, the cellular phone entrepreneur who was beheaded by Iraqi insurgents. So what's the point? Dishonest attempts to reduce the moral baseline merely reiterate one's own ethical inferiority. The fact that other human beings can conceive of miseries even crueler and more painful to inflict cannot exculpate us for the sins we commit. Is the robber less guilty because he can look down on the kidnapper? Shall we forgive Hitler for killing six million Jews if someone else kills seven?"

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