The in-fighting begins before the release of the CIA torture report. It's all Diane Feinstein's fault and the Democratic Senate for sliming patriots.
Messsage: Torture is tearing the country apart. This isn't going away for at least fifty years.
The Huffington Post
From Truth and Reconciliation to Lies and Obfuscation: The Senate RDI Report
Robert Grenier | Former Director of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (2004 to 2006); Author of the forthcoming '88 Days to Kandahar'
The Huffington Post
From Truth and Reconciliation to Lies and Obfuscation: The Senate RDI Report
Robert Grenier | Former Director of the CIA Counter-Terrorism Center (2004 to 2006); Author of the forthcoming '88 Days to Kandahar'
2 comments:
"Torture is tearing the country apart. "
Tom how do you get there? Nobody cares about this unless it is perhaps brought up in a poll or something...
People generally dont care about this...
This albeit from 2012 but perhaps still revealing:
"According to the new HuffPost/YouGov survey, only 25 percent of Americans said that torture of suspected terrorists who may know details about future attacks is never justified."
So that means 75% of people can conceive of a circumstance where torture could be justified...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/14/torture-poll-2012_n_2301492.html
So its a matter of discretion for 75% of US, hardly 'polarized'...
rsp,
25% at this point is significant, Matt. This is not going away as more of the gory details come out about not only torture but rendition.
Same with the whistleblower revelation like Manning, Assange, and Snowden.
IMHO, there is a trend developing here and in the end America will turn out to have a conscience.
The overall trend is of a piece that C J. Polychroniou, a Levy Institute Research Associate and Policy Fellow, calls "predatory capitalism,"
P redatory capitalism is comprised of neoliberalism, financialization, and globalization aka neo-imperialism and neocolonialism.
Torture and rendition are just tools, along with military adventurism for resources, corporate capture of states, and a transnational capitalist superclass that is above the law and expropriates the vast majority of global wealth through application of financial, economic, and state power.
Predatory Capitalism: Old Trends and New Realities
Eventually these dots will either be increasingly connected or the distraction will continue but necessarily increase in intensity leading to global crises. I think the latter may occur before the former, so I am a bit on the pessimistic side of this. It still has quite a way to go yet.
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