Jose Rodriguez, CIA’s Chef de Torture, points out that torture isn’t really torture because the detainee can make the torture stop by talking. Drum protests:
if you think the CIA torture program was OK, presumably that means you wouldn’t be outraged if the same techniques were used on U.S. soldiers in order to extracinformation from them. Right? It can’t possibly be the case that it’s OK for us to do this stuff, but not for anyone else, can it?
Of course it can, because exceptionalism. Its all part of the America, FUCK YEAH! school of foreign policy. See Cheney et al.
Also in foreign policy today: Hagel. I don’t know much about him, don’t know if he’d be a good SecDef, although the fact that he used his brain in regards to Iraq is promising. I presume Obama nominated him for a good reason and I also presume that GOP opposition to him has nothing to do with him because they would be saying the same shit regardless of who the nominee was because its what they do. So the nomination fights just seem like they should not merit anyone’s attention, theater critics excepted.
But since this is apparently going to be the thing we’re doing for the next little while, can we please get it straight right off the bat that “I disagree with the actions of the Israeli government” does not equal “I hate Jews!”
Please?
520 Chestnut 
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