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Um, do you want an answer to make you happy, or the answer the dark recesses of my mind suspects is probably true?

Unfortunately, whichever you want, the dark recesses of my mind are winning out:

To put it bluntly, to someone pro-torture, the Israeli is right to sleep soundly at night. The Brit says it all, we're failing because we don't have the will "to do what is necessary."

And the American? He is soft. No doubt in fact they would use some feminine term intended to be derogatory.

You can read as much in the writing of Mark Steyn and others from the US right on the issue.

Is that the purpose of the article? Difficult to say.
I wrote a whole philosophical paragraph on the relationship between "witness evidence" and "narrative" but I deleted it as I don't think it helps.

I think it is fair to say, that this report sits squarely in the territory of "We report, you decide..."

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 05:40:03 PM EST
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That's sort of what I was afraid of.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:04:13 PM EST
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