Look on the bright side, at least its not a civil war.
Shock and Awe more like Fucked and Flawed.
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Glad other people are speaking up about the immorality of torture. As politicians argue, and our pragmatist-in-chief tries to find an angle, we can agree that not all moral dilemmas can be reduced to a cost-benefit analysis of pleasure and pain. There are some kinds of pain a morally serious person ought never to inflict. [From Is Torture Utilitarian?]
CALME
Campaign for American Leadership in the Middle East. via TPM. Looks very promising. Sign on. Spread the word.