Posted by
ApolloSpeaks on Friday, May 15, 2009 7:26:16 AM
Dr. Krauthammer's article in today's TH "The Torture Debate, Continued" is a praiseworthy exercise in situation ethics where moral principles against torture, which he and most every American share, are cast aside in a national emergency; when love of country requires us to become Jack Bauers doing unsavory things like torturing human beings for the greater good of national security and saving American lives. Patriotism (love of country) is the ultimate national law overruling what is written; the "Higher Law" of Martin Luther King who defied the written Jim Crow Laws to end racial discrimination and advance national morality and American ideals of justice and equal rights. If Bush and Cheney broke the law with the practice of waterboarding on jailed al-Qaida terrorists-whether or not it saved lives-then it puts them in league with men of conscience and conviction like Dr.King and like him they deserve the highest praise.