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25 Aug 09

Thomas Paine v. the Right's torture defenders

It really is that simple.

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04 May 09

Ruthless yet humane: Why Obama cited Churchill on torture. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine

He didn't get the attention he deserved for it, but President Obama was very cleverly fusing liberal principles with an appeal to the basic conservative values of "Old Europe" when, in his 100th-day press conference, he used Winston Churchill to justify his opposition to water-boarding and other "enhanced methods." He told his audience that, even at a time when London was being "bombed to smithereens" and the British government held hundreds of Nazi agents in an internment center, there was a prime-ministerial view that torture was never permissible.

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23 Apr 09