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Originally Posted by Alex
And to pre-empt the eventual question that comes up. If torture was the only thing standing between us avoiding another 9/11, it would still be wrong to torture and that would be, in my view, and acceptable price to pay for standing by some very important principles.
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Something on which I do not doubt your sincerity at all, because you are not someone seeking political advantage.
No one would ever convince me though, that should something horrid have happened (say the LA 9/11 thing), Pelosi, Reid, Durbin, whomever, would all be on the other side asking why we didn't use more agressive techniques to find out whatever we could.
And this is what disturbs me about politics, really. I don't consider myself innocent of it in the least. EVERYTHING can be spun in hindsight to make a political opponent look inept. With rare exception, I do believe (Obama included) that politicians have the best interests of America at heart, but each politician wants to be the one who is credited with making the decisions that have bettered America. Should Kerrey or Gore have been President and made some of or all of the same decisions, the left would be all for them and justifying or downplaying the significance of just what they are now condemning.