Moralizing Politics: 'Never Again'
"Coercive interrogation techniques did not produce the vital (and) otherwise unavailable intelligence the CIA has claimed."
"History will judge us by our commitment to a just society, government by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say 'never again'."
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman Senate intelligence committee
"We know that the program led to the capture of al-Qaeda leaders and took them off the battlefield, that it prevented mass casualty attacks and that it saved thousands of American lives."
George Tenet, then-CIA director
Senator Feinstein, Democrat from California, deplores the report she unveiled, as demonstrating a level of brutality not previously known to have occurred. None of the 20 cases that the CIA claimed had led to "actionable intelligence" according to the report. The question now is; what have Americans gained by the publishing of this report? It adds nothing really to what was already known.
Americans have been well aware that their government was practising the detention and torture of those suspected of terrorism following the al-Qaeda jihadist terrorist attacks of 9/11 in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania and the almost three thousand deaths associated with the tragic atrocities. The Democratic president who followed the Republican president of the day represents himself as someone responsible for a different, more responsible, and moral administration.
Where the Republican president presided over a country reeling from a reprehensible attack of monumental proportions on its own soil, as distinct from the many Islamist jihadist attacks perpetrated against the U.S. on foreign soil, and had to deal with the fall-out in enhancing security and defence against the nation's enemies, the current Democratic president put a kind of limp closure on the event by ordering the assassination of al-Qaeda's head.
Where the Republican president presided over a government that permitted its agencies to engage in less-than-civilly-presentable behaviours in the name of security and defence, the Democratic president has excelled in the use of at-distant assassinations by way of computerized warfare through the use of drones. Outright killing is, of course, infinitely more moral than torturing prisoners planning atrocities against people innocent of anything but being American.
Sanctimony thy name is infamous!
Labels: Conflict, Defence, Islamism, Jihad, Security, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, December 11, 2014
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