<<The notion, which is idiotic in its least form, and patently asanine in it's worst, to imply that the U.S. routinely aims and "leads" to target children, is beyond appalling. >>
When did I say it was routine? The joke is a joke. You can take what you like from it - - that the soldiers had a macabre sense of humour, nothing more; or they didn't give a shit. Or some of A and some of B.
<<And the stuff you're just NOW starting to grasp as to the levels of torture that was routine within Sunni & AlQeada-like terrorist groups, has been chronicled and spoken about adnauseum for years. You simply refused to believe it, . . . >>
Ridiculous. Of course I believed it. And I believed that in many cases (Saddam, al Qaeda) it was bought and paid for by the U.S. The U.S. sponsored regimes all across the Middle East, Central and South America and Indonesia that did the same or worse. They continued to back Israel even after the Israelis legalized torture. To claim that there is some kind of moral gulf between the U.S. and al Qaeda based on the use of torture or the slaughter of innocent civilians is ludicrous.
The one single thing I fault myself for was that my gag reflex was toned down by a sense of moral relativism. I was more outraged at the U.S. doing this than I was by al Qaeda simply because I, and the whole world, expects a lot more from the U.S. than we do from al Qaeda.
<< . . . and instead wrapped yourself around the idiocy that such measures of routine torture was SOP for the U.S. military, and of course validated so by how well they keep it secret from all of us.>>
Well, you got that right, mostly, and there's nothing idiotic about it. The "President" reserves the right to define for himself what is torture, the Pentagon is still keeping 90% of the Abu Ghraib pictures and videos under wraps and nobody has ever opened a window into the secret torture chambers maintained by the U.S. government around the world, or what goes on whan a prisoner is "rendered" by the U.S. into the custody of foreign governments for torture. I think maybe by this point the U.S. military has refined its procedures and divided up the labours, so that the grunt in the field doesn't have responsibility for torturing the prisoners, they probably passed that on to specialists or out-sourced it to "contractors" or by rendition to third countries.
<<The lunacy my dear friend Tee, is the likes of your commentary represented by this very thread. Now, if such a proclaimation on my part gets me a reprimand from someone like Plane or Bt, I'll endeavor to take responsibility for my actions. If I'm asked (or told) to take a longer vacation, then I'll accept the consequences to my words>>
sirs, if you DIDN'T call my thoughts lunacy, I would have to worry about their correctness. I don't think anyone is going to call you on the "lunacy" allegations, particularly since I was the one who raised them in the first place.
You're not entirely wrong, though. I really did lose sight of how nauseating and repulsive those "Resistance fighters" really are. They're enemies of humanity in every sense of the word and deserve to be wiped off the face of the earth. And then maybe we can look at the Americans who sponsored them in the first place and who turned a blind eye to everything that they and people like them were doing all over the world for America, with American help and blessing. Guys like Negroponte. Guys like George H.W. Bush. If there's gonna be an accounting, let it be across the board.
