Who is Richard Cohen...disgusting Wash Post article defending Cheney's torture methods

What if Cheney's Right?

By Richard Cohen
Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Blogger Alert: I have written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think -- in respectful paraphrase of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman -- that everything he says is a lie, including the ands and the thes. Yet I have to wonder whether what he is saying now is the truth -- i.e., torture works.

In some sense, this is an arcane point since the United States insists it will not torture anymore -- not that, the Bush people quickly add, it ever did. Torture is a moral abomination, and President Obama is right to restate American opposition to it. But where I reserve a soupçon of doubt is over the question of whether "enhanced interrogation techniques" actually work. That they do not is a matter of absolute conviction among those on the political left, who seem to think that the CIA tortured suspected terrorists just for the hell of it.

Cheney, though, is adamant that the very measures that are now deemed illegal did work and that, furthermore, doing away with them has made the country less safe. Cheney said this most recently on Sunday, on CBS's "Face the Nation." "Those policies were responsible for saving lives," he told Bob Schieffer. In effect, Cheney poses a hard, hard question: Is it more immoral to torture than it is to fail to prevent the deaths of thousands? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/11/AR2009051102668.html



A hard question? The dumbasses in the Bush administration FAILED on 9/11 to protect "thousands". Trying to make up for it by torturing others, sullying America's rep, and making more enemies for us is not a good solution. Who is this Richard Cohen idiot anyway?

if I'm trying to get him to stop playing his goddamn megaloud stereo till 3:00 AM.

Doesn't mean I should do it.

But the truth is, no one has shown torture to be a very effective way of getting information. It is an excellent tool of intimidation and control, though.

Is that what we want?

I would say torture has led to increased recruitment in Al Qaeda.

sincerely,
Mr. I don't have no street cred.

:)

it should fry his circuits. but it could give him cancer too, or cook a small dog. So it's still up in the air.

and take that silly ass "in God We Trust" crap off our money. And get rid of that "under god" stuff out of our pledge.

And replace them all with - "The United States of America - where the Ends Justify the Means"

or made to stay awake for over a week standing with his hands chained above his head.

it's just plain wrong. And according to people who work with this they got more info with other means.