I discovered this video posted on a very right wing blog recently. It's of an MSNBC debate about waterboarding and torture. The author of that blog had a different view of it than I did.
Sorry, but Joe Scarborough is being enormously unfair here. Arrogant. And a jack ass. (And normally, I like Joe Scarborough.) He is doing his best paternalistic Jack "You Can't Handle the Truth about Our Dangerous World" Nicholson routing here, and it's not working. I think there is also a bit of male chest thumping.
Not everything a left-winger, or so-called moderate says is wrong. There are no limits to what Buchanan and Scarborough are advocating. It offends the sensibilities of people who don't want crude "realist" thugs protecting our freedoms.
As I have said before, the willingness to believe one has to do these things in order to protect freedom, as the "only choice," is (aside from cheap utilitarian reasoning toward which conservatives are usually averse - see previous post) a kind of exercise in Nietzschean over-man beyond-good-and-evil vanity. And, sad to say, some conservatives just LOVE IT.
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