tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post6288003710192630877..comments2024-03-28T03:49:28.628-04:00Comments on Rip Jagger's Dojo: Enhanced Prevarication!Rip Jaggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-66840733056022686572014-12-12T00:50:26.365-05:002014-12-12T00:50:26.365-05:00I thought the covers offered up a neat counterpoin...I thought the covers offered up a neat counterpoint about heroism and torture. As I've listened to the arguments justifying the torture today, it's clearer and clearer that folks have been corrupted by the acts, the very thing everyone warns about. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-34130629640607201912014-12-12T00:48:55.745-05:002014-12-12T00:48:55.745-05:00You are doubtless correct. I just watched O'Re...You are doubtless correct. I just watched O'Reilly argue with John McCain (hardly a shrinking violet on this issue) that the killing of soldiers at the end of WWII who were in the act of surrendering on the battlefield somehow equated to the clinical application of specifically listed prohibited tortures. He seemed to be somehow suggesting that back then this bad thing happened (regrettable but much more understandable) so then these other bad things were justified. It was a heinous argument. What a creep, a guy who argues himself into knots and then will not ever admit a mistake. <br /><br />Rip OffRip Jaggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936426877024852134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-78633462786533889492014-12-11T09:55:34.191-05:002014-12-11T09:55:34.191-05:00Americans' first reaction in times of crisis i...Americans' first reaction in times of crisis is usually the wrong one.<br />After Pearl Harbor, our first action was to round up almost everyone who looked Asian (even if they weren't Japanese) and put them in internment camps.<br />If BIll O'Reilly and company were around then, they'd have praised that action with..."See! There haven't been any attacks on the US itself since we locked up all those foreign-looking guys!"<br />When you act like the bad guys, you're no longer the "good guys".Britt Reidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07245579677452948620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8220285230636101823.post-13856685346995795232014-12-11T09:49:32.709-05:002014-12-11T09:49:32.709-05:00Well spoken, Rip. And some nice covers here that a...Well spoken, Rip. And some nice covers here that also support your point.GARETThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15027041765844127613noreply@blogger.com