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Jun. 17th, 2005 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kuangningActually, I'm not done yet.
The smarmy tone of that AFA spam nauseates me. Deliberate downplaying of inhumane treatment, leaving out the inconvenient details -- that's bad enough. The unspoken invitation to join him in deciding that "it's not really that bad" and the attendant insinuation that, hey, it's all justified, because look what happened to us. This is only a few ragheads. They've been inconvenienced a little, that's all. And the bleeding-heart Democrat dares to criticise us? Doesn't he support our boys?
Well, yeah, he does. Enough to not want them diminishing themselves by stooping to outright torture of helpless prisoners. Enough to stand up and say in front of everyone that this isn't a road we want to be taking. Enough to hold the line when you round up your masses of blinkered and complacent supporters (better that than to believe they're utterly lacking in any feeling of shared humanity!) and blast away at him for telling the truth. I don't call it support, to see someone resorting to the lowest kind of act, and to turn a blind eye, knowing fully well that treatment like that degrades the one giving as much as the one who receives it.
But what do I know? I'm one of those bleeding hearts too.
The smarmy tone of that AFA spam nauseates me. Deliberate downplaying of inhumane treatment, leaving out the inconvenient details -- that's bad enough. The unspoken invitation to join him in deciding that "it's not really that bad" and the attendant insinuation that, hey, it's all justified, because look what happened to us. This is only a few ragheads. They've been inconvenienced a little, that's all. And the bleeding-heart Democrat dares to criticise us? Doesn't he support our boys?
Well, yeah, he does. Enough to not want them diminishing themselves by stooping to outright torture of helpless prisoners. Enough to stand up and say in front of everyone that this isn't a road we want to be taking. Enough to hold the line when you round up your masses of blinkered and complacent supporters (better that than to believe they're utterly lacking in any feeling of shared humanity!) and blast away at him for telling the truth. I don't call it support, to see someone resorting to the lowest kind of act, and to turn a blind eye, knowing fully well that treatment like that degrades the one giving as much as the one who receives it.
But what do I know? I'm one of those bleeding hearts too.
