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May 26, 2004 Defending the indefensible Via WashingtonMonthly and Obsidian Wings, we find Trent Lott gunning for irrelevancy. Again. Actually, he begins with a defensible position, which has been misinterpreted... "Frankly, to save some American troops' lives or a unit that could be in danger, I think you should get really rough with them," Lott said. "Some of those people should probably not be in prisons in the first place."This isn't an endorsement of the kind of prison brutality we saw in Abu Ghraib, it is simply the belief that some extreme circumstances can call for extreme measures. We can agree there. Nobody I know would hesitate to torture a kidnapper, if they needed to find out where their family had been taken and fast. In the case of imminent danger to lives, torture is an option. But, that wasn't the case for the prisoners in Abu Ghraib, and Lott doesn't stop there.... Lott was reminded that at least one prisoner had died at the hands of his captors after a beating.Oh, well, if it isn't Sunday School..... |