15 June 2004
Torture
As disgusted as I am with the torture reports, I'm realizing how much Bush's actions play to the isolationists. The government is focusing more on secrecy than on apology. That will sit well with those who don't believe that more than sixty per cent of the civilian inmates at Abu Ghraib were deemed not to be a threat to society
, and who instead insist that all of those inmates are in fact 100% evil. Or with those who haven't heard or don't care that [t]he International Red Cross ... reported that 70 to 90 percent of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib have been imprisoned there by mistake, simply rounded up in dragnets.
(subscription) And the isolationists are probably a good portion of our population.
No matter how many Justice Department memos declare torture acceptable and no matter how much we recoil at it, Rush Limbaugh will still broadcast on American Forces Radio that this type of blow[ing] some steam off
is acceptable.
I initially felt that the snowballing revelations of this mismanaged war would show everyone what a morally corrupt president really looks like. Now I'm not so sure that it even matters to many people.
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