05-23-2009, 08:25 AM
Quote:However, you did choose one of my posts to reply to, so forgive me for taking it as an attack on me and my views.
No harm no foul.:)
But let me say this --- my response was not indended as an attack on you, but it was an attack on one of your views (at least as I understood it), namely that critics of the Bush interrogation program were mistaking the the lack of jam at breakfast for torture. This is exactly where I came in. To repeat my main comment ad nauseam: the US has tortured people. The real mistake is to argue that all it's done is feed detainees marmite for breakfast.
Quote:Later I will post what my problems are with the definition of torture that you quoted. Problems that are general to all definitions of torture which I've seen to date.
You can if you want, but, like pornography, I know torture when I see it.