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Jon Swift Brings Conservative Clarity to the Torture Race 0

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Unfortunately, the strict standards of the Geneva Conventions and American laws that incorporate them don’t allow for the fact that the definition of torture is a fluid one. These rules seem to be based on an inflexible Platonic ideal of torture. But times change. What seemed like torture back during World War II is like a walk in the park today. The CIA and our armed forces need the flexibility to continually redefine torture and enhance our interrogation techniques as the enemy continually enhances its interrogation techniques. Only by frequently defining torture up — but not too far up because we never want to be as bad as they are — can we hope to stay on an almost even playing field with the enemy. As long as there are a few new atrocities that the enemy commits that we can point to as worse than things we do, then we know we are winning the moral battle and we still have a chance to win the military one. The CIA has a tough enough job making sure that their torture is worse than our torture (which can’t even really be called torture anymore) but not so much worse that they pull too far ahead of us. They don’t need to have their job made even more difficult by meddling politicians whose outdated conceptions of torture and rigid moral standards only strait-jacket our troops.

If we do win this war and Western Civilization survives, no doubt future generations will look back on this debate and wonder what all the fuss was about. “That’s not so bad at all,” they’ll say, “compared with what we do today.”

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