Waterboarding, All Wet.

Let’s keep this simple by sticking to the direct facts, the consequential sequence.
Osama was killed by a Navy Seal Team. A bullet to the head, according to those who were there, as well as those who saw it via video link. Period. Direct. Dead on truth of consequences.

Taking the trail back to something 5 years earlier may make you happy to justify your mistaken notions of information, of punishment, of justified sadism… It may do all those things, but that is wrong. Why not go back to earlier triggers? The odd truth is that geo-intelligence software did more to locate the person on the end of the cell phone calls. The name given up under torture was actually NAMES…. plural. More than one.

The scenario used to support the torture as necessary assumes that a fact is already known. “Suppose you have a terrorist who knows the location of the deadly device that will kill thousands of innocent….”
Obviously there is a difference between suspecting and knowing. How is it that you know with such certainty? If you are certain, why don’t you have yet additional means of information, such as the one that provided you near perfect vision of the future.

The old saw about the picture of the suspect: “Why didn’t the guy who took the picture of the crook just keep him, rather than letting him go after posing for his picture.”

Explaining your own mistaken premise is easy, but wrong. In a world made more and more dangerous because of failures of ideas makes it too damned dangerous for us to do anything but damn the conceited who make such arrogant claims.

There Were Nazis. There Are Still.

Before you call them Nazi.

Know that they knew the detail of killing down to the smallest price, the minor details. Now held in our Library Of Congress are their records. They knew that one rifle bullet could kill three persons, if they were stood together. They even knew, and taught, to be certain of killing all three they should be bound together with rope. But Nazi accounting went even further, their tacticians even more disciplined, they knew to take the rope, they knew cost control. Reuse that rope to minimize the total capital expense of genocide.

How the society hardens.

As wars prolong, take on self sustaining reasons, they harden the society. Wars always begin with high hopes. We send our soldiers off, fearing they will die, but without ever understanding the effect of killing, the effect of walking in others blood will have, first on them, then, upon their return, the effect upon us, upon our society. We each endure, some in very small ways, others in much greater ones what is being done, and will be returned to us. So we call them heros. A new use of a very old world.
In the world of Nazism the soldiers could march their prisoners through the streets of a city without worry. They were cheered. They were even blessed. The transport trains were blessed. The trains, the soldiers, but not the damned. No christ for jews at these stations. The citizens had been hardened enough by war. Their cheering for the heros filled their ears. No hearing the crying, the tears of those damned. That is the hard fact of war. The warrior society becomes hardened. The home fires are kept warm by watching kill videos, hearing war stories, fondling mementos. Our leaders proudly hold the gun of a tyrant. Keep it in their home in North Dallas for all visitors to see. Some may even touch

No one walks through war without getting dirty. The cannon is heard by everyone. Slaps all ears until fading into echo.

don’t be quick to call someone Nazi, your boots are still stained.

Nazism isn’t dead

It lives in symbol. It lives in energy. It lives in too many places, in too many ways. The people you so quickly call Nazi aren’t. Your too easy, too sudden, too often use only means you don’t understand. It means that Nazism can grow and will.