Though laudable for finally acknowledging that the United States tortures and kidnaps people, the Senate torture report’s principal arguments against torture rely not on the basis of morality or law, but its supposed ineffectiveness. This what moral corruption looks like.
This is What Moral Corruption Looks Like
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Any expression of human decency is seen as a weakness by too many Americans.
The obsessive need to hide weakness reveals a real sense of weakness, the need to be regarded as fearsome, to be feared, to see fear in other’s eyes.
Also known as cowardice.
Right on.
The raving fundamentalist religionists are a a subset – so without the faith the purport to have, they must obsessively force it onto others.
Well, while I’m not very sure at all as to whether there are “too many Jooze,” America’s oligarchic Congress sure as hell is drowning in Zionists … of all stripes. Beyond all doubt, it’s a ZOG.
DanD
You lost me with “ZOG”! (?)
@der, Zionist Occupation Government
@Dan, antisemitism is bigotry too. And if you believe we live under a ZOG you are definitely on the lunatic fringe.
Don’t blame it on ZOG, Jethro Blame it on the Beverly Hillbillies.
We should change the national anthem to Dueling Banjos.
I dislike the use of the word “moral” as it has religious connotation.
The phenomenon is:
so heinous a corruption of purported founding values as to cast doubt that they ever existed.
To me it’s just a synonym for ethical.
Great cartoon, Ted ! The Nazis tried at Nürnberg did not, in fact, appear in resplendent bemedaled uniforms, but were the trials to be conducted today, they might well be allowed them, for the sake of better TV….
Henri