Mitt Romney and the Case of the Ticking Time Bomb
When asked about torture, people inevitably point to the "ticking time bomb scenario" as an example of a situation in which torture is justified. Most of the time, torture apologists don't point out the no ticking time bomb scenario has ever been recorded in history. Read that again. There has never been a situation where a terrorist has been captured and torture would have been able to save lives in imminent danger.
And yet we have mealy-mouthed presidential candidates like Mitt Romney who claim that we need to engage in "enhanced" interrogation techniques (in Romneyspeak that means "not torture") in ticking bomb situations. He wants to double our detainment camp at Guantanamo for the express reason that it denies prisoners of the rights they would be afforded on American soil. The line about doubling Guantanamo, by the way, was the money line that drew enthusiastic applause from the audient. You see, suspected terrorists are like radioactive HAZMAT, we can't risk them touching the very land we live on!
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's any real chance at all the Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate for president, but it's a sad state of affairs where a man who is as wrong as he is on security is considered a serious candidate.
Labels: election, mitt-romney, politics, rebpulicans
2 Comments:
See, if they touch our soil there's a better case that they deserve the rights given to all those detained by the U.S. government. That's problematic, as we've kind of sort of a little been torturing them and holding them indefinitely and stuff.
As for the ticking time bomb, I'd point out that 1) it's been in a ton of movies, and Regan never let a little thing like the difference between movies and reality get in the way and 2) history is written by the victors, and you're either with us or you're against us.
Sir, yes sir! I'm with us not against us, sir!
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