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Originally posted by moe.ron
Do you or do you not condemn the Abu Gharib tortures? It is a simple question.
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Then here's a simple answer for you, if you want to wax sophist for a moment:
NO.
I don't unilaterally condemn it.
Sorry, but in a wartime environment, the rules shift. History has proven time and again that he who breaks the rules takes a decisive advantage - so why restrict ourselves to some sort of generation-A morality, when we're in battle with an enemy who clearly doesn't give a damn?
Now - this obviously ignores the larger questions of the validity of war, as well as the intelligence of using our supposed moral highground as a selling point to Iraqis . . . but those are separate issues.