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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers is torture.
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I guess he thinks they wouldn't use waterboarding. I bet if I proposed on Cougarboard that to fight al-qaida we should scare them by publicly executing everyone at Guantanamo, taping it and letting Al-jazeera TV broadacast it, that I would get some rousing agreement by quite a few.
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Using the example of waterboarding to make a moral equivalence between America and al-Qaeda.
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I think it is pretty clear that he is saying that the more the US engages in conduct which is similar to the conduct that makes al-Qaeda reprehensible, the more the US and al-Qaeda appear to be morally equivalent; so the US shouldn't start down the path of emulating al-Qaeda behavior in any areas at all. He is right. |
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I didn't say there was a moral equivalence. My argument is that we should not stoop to the same tactics they use.
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Lemme guess ... you're a glass half-empty guy.
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