Why Iraq is so hard
...Winning is everything. Fighting ruthlessly may not please the safe-at-home moralists, but it's losing that's immoral.
Consider just one of the many issues about which we're insistently naive and hypocritical: torture.
Earlier this month, our Army released the results of an internally initiated survey of soldiers and Marines in Iraq. The results showed that almost half of our troops would condone torture in a specific instance if it saved their buddies' lives.
The media were, of course, appalled. I was shocked, too - surprised that so few of our troops would condone any action that kept their comrades alive.
Torturing prisoners should never be our policy, both because it's immoral and because it's usually ineffective. But it's madness to declare that there can never be exceptions.
For a Truly Bizarre Warp of Morality and Ethics
Originally Posted by Tom Odom
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