(NP) Re: canning worms

[David Morris]

I like your reasoning and insight into their dark souls, but if they
were out for base vengeance why did they settle for the few guilty
that they'd captured in Afghanistan instead of the bigger vengeance of
Bin Ladin and his Taliban enablers?  Rummy's arrogant incompetence?
Maybe so...

Anyway, at this point Pakistan is clearly the bigger global threat.

David Morris

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Hepzibah Pyncheon
<misshepzibah at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> They didn't need to establish that presumed link as fact. The brilliantly worded advertising slogan "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" did the trick quite succinctly. End of discussion. They could have gotten AZ or KSM to sign a piece of paper, a classic propaganda "confession," saying whatever was wanted. They didn't need it really, didn't care especially; simple mechanisms like Bush stop at the minimally sufficient assertion----everything more is a waste of time better spent on self-congratulation. All this we are hearing about our government's interrogative motives in torturing these men looks to me like evasive post-rationalization, or at best the cover story they gave as bureaucratic justification to the hirelings doing the work. What they needed was at most a "reason" they could actually write down in a file, and "because we want them to suffer, and we want it on videotape" didn't seem prudent.
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