re: #749 LudwigVanQuixote

So it would have been ok to break the law if we hadn’t gotten caught?

Yes, LVQ, that’s exactly my position - we can be criminally evil and suicidally stupid so long as we don’t get caught at it. If you can’t see that actions taken at that time were not intended to be part of a campaign of legal prosecution, but were part of national security matters, then there’s no point in trying to explain it to you. They weren’t treated like defendants because no one ever imagined we’d be so painfully stupid as to classify them as criminals.

Look, all of the talk about innocent Americans mudered negelcts a very crucial point. KSM is most likely guilty as sin, and we have him on enough other things that he deserves to die. Fine.

Save that refutation for those who brought it up. I didn’t.

However, not everyone picked up is a priori guilty.

What about those actually innocent ones that we picked up, detained for years on end and tortured?

Who are these innocents we wronged so? Where are they? They don’t exist. It’s not as if we went tear-assing around afghanistan grabbing every bearded guy who wasn’t nailed down or in the ground and started hassling him.

American justice is still ok if it makes us feel we got our vengeance? Or is it that American justice still ok if it only does that now and again to brown people?

Ahh! Clever LVQ, seeing through my false distinction between criminality and unconventional warfare! How keenly your piercing gaze saw right through to the inherent atavistic racism in my position! There’s not reply I can make to that, so completely have you revealed my evil.

Which means I won’t have to bore you with pointing out that no one gets any sort of vengeance from having the guy grow his beard, get over his tuberculosis, and get fat in Guantanamo. But the President and the AG promising certain death for him, why, that’s nothing less than enlightened and fair jurisprudence for all to see, in sharp contrast to my own blood thirsty racism.