My Solution To The Torture Debate Is Elegant In Its Simplicity

Anybody up for continuing our great national debate on torture and military tribunals?

Me neither.

So here's the plan: Bush quietly puts out word to the intelligence community that they are to continue using whatever methods they've found to work. When our guys are done working them over, screw it: let them be tried wherever Congress wants (I'm nothing if not generous). The information they give us is the important thing.

Now, if someone ends up being convicted for using a method deemed excessively harsh, they receive a presidential pardon. It is issued immediately and with no questions asked. When Congress finds out and moves to impeach Bush, he resigns...and is promptly pardoned by President Cheney. It's a twofer!

Naturally there's no chance whatsoever of this happening, but that's where my mind's at right now. Because I swear to God, if I have to hear any more maudlin sob stories about John McCain's time in Vietnam, or how this country is losing it's soul to its anger, or how we're turning into the thing we're fighting, I'm just gonna put my head in a fuckin' oven.

Kindness and all that are fine when times are good, but you win wars by thinking like a Visigoth.

posted by AndrewR at 03:47 PM

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