Just Sayin

Torture, the next logical step in a war where an empire intrudes into the affairs of unwitting nations. These actions sound similar to the tactics used by Nazi Germany against those who refused to kowtow.

Recently I have had the displeasure of reading about the report of CIA torture techniques, their fruitless results and the potential political fallout. Johnnie (war monger) McCain was quick to refute the actions of the CIA.

McCain states, “I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence…”, “I know that victims of torture will offer intentionally misleading information if they think their captors will believe it. I know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. Most of all, I know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies, our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights, which are protected by international conventions the U.S. not only joined, but for the most part authored.”

But Johnnie isn’t traipsing about the world and occupying other countries, he’s just violating the non-interventionist principles that our country was founded upon by always pushing for more military engagements. If we weren’t there swatting at the hornets’ nest we wouldn’t get stung. According to you, we have become the terrorists that we set out to fight. We’ve evolved into the evil you folks crusade against; what does that say about the policies you and the rest of the global dominators espouse? Specifically, it’s that those policies are a sign of a corrupted mind, and would be so even if they were effective. A new course needs to be charted, one that is deviates drastically from the old course: stop intervening, stop influencing, and stop bribing. You can’t lambaste the bad guy who tortures and praise the good guy whose drone-fired missiles assassinate ISIS and Al Qaida leaders along with hundreds of innocents. Either way you are the bad guy!

Now Johnnie admits that the government is a bunch of liars and will cover up their misdeeds.

“There was considerable misinformation disseminated then about what was and wasn’t achieved using these methods in an effort to discourage support for the legislation. There was a good amount of misinformation used in 2011 to credit the use of these methods with the death of Osama bin Laden. And there is, I fear, misinformation being used today to prevent the release of this report, disputing its findings and warning about the security consequences of their public disclosure.”

Since you are one of these governmental tools I believe you are no different and will lie to cover your slimy actions and ambition for power. You can throw the CIA under the bus, but you are no better. They tortured people we call “enemy’, you torture people we call “citizen”. How you ask? By sending them into harm’s way to get crippled, maimed, or killed in unconstitutional actions. Your push for military intervention and those with you have created more enemies, both home and abroad, than can be forgiven in three generations. One word, STOP!

Johnnie claims there may be fallout from the CIA actions,

“Will the report’s release cause outrage that leads to violence in some parts of the Muslim world? Yes, I suppose that’s possible, perhaps likely. Sadly, violence needs little incentive in some quarters of the world today. But that doesn’t mean we will be telling the world something it will be shocked to learn. The entire world already knows that we waterboarded prisoners. It knows we subjected prisoners to various other types of degrading treatment. It knows we used black sites, secret prisons. Those practices haven’t been a secret for a decade.

“Terrorists might use the report’s re-identification of the practices as an excuse to attack Americans but they hardly need an excuse for that. That has been their life’s calling for a while now.”

For once Johnnie, you are right. They don’t need the actions of the CIA to incite them. You and your ilk have already done a great job of it. For decades you have pushed to expand the empire for “greater good” and “democracy”. Aside from gaining thousands of enemies and a huge debt we have accomplished little, and I can only hope the American people get wise and remove vile hate-driven slugs like you from office. Your policies in no way make our borders safe nor protect anyone within our country; I believe they provide just the opposite.

I want to live a life of peace in a free land. Your policies and beliefs offer neither. You are quick to take from others for your own ends and twisted desires, but when it comes full circle and the alphabet groups start acting as viciously as any other conquering nation throughout history, you squeal. This is just a corollary of your war mongering. There is no moral high ground with this one Johnnie, either you want war or you don’t. With war, you get ALL the ugly that comes with it and “we the people” get the fallout. It is beyond time to cut our losses and end the interventionist polices.