my Globe editorial inspired rant
Torture is something that we can all agree is fundamentally wrong, assuming of course that you agree to standards of human rights. The American people “unspecifically” know that our operatives of Homeland Security have used torture here and overseas- Gitmo has even become our cheeky abbreviated word for our foremost center of torture (that is if you still go along with the understanding that we don’t know about that Cold War Era facility somewhere in Eastern Europe). Flushing the Koran, ripping off fingernails, and electrical-genital pain can elicit information from pinko Commies- but there is another war bigger than the War on Terror that we have engaged ourselves in: the War of Beliefs. Rummaging still between the Red and Blue states, the War of Beliefs (or in Dubya’s case the War on Beliefs) rages on. And the War of Beliefs is not something we can win through torture but rather compassion- oh wait isn’t Bush supposed to be our compassionate leader? A uniter not a divider? So wait now I’m confused … but either way leave the torture to the terrorists.