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| − | {{data.pair|Text|by Andrew Sullivan: “But my biggest misreading was not about competence. Wars are often marked by incompetence. It was a fatal misjudgment of [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s sense of morality. I had no idea he was so complacent — even glib — about the evil that good intentions can enable. I truly did not believe that Bush would use [[9/11]] to tear up the [[Geneva Conventions]]. When I first heard of abuses at [[Gitmo]], I dismissed them as enemy propaganda. I certainly never believed that a [[conservative]] would embrace [[torture]] as the central thrust of an [[War on Terror|anti-terror strategy]] and lie about it, and scapegoat underlings for it, and give us the indelible stain of Bagram and Camp Cropper and [[Abu Ghraib abuses|Abu Ghraib]] and all the other secret torture and interrogation sites that Bush and [[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] created and oversaw. I certainly never believed that a war I supported for the sake of freedom would actually use as its central weapon the deepest antithesis of freedom — the destruction of human autonomy and dignity and will that is torture. To distort this by shredding the English language, by engaging in [[newspeak]] that I had long associated with [[American totalitarianism|totalitarian]] regimes, was a further insult. And for me, it was yet another epiphany about what [[US conservatism|American conservatism]] had come to mean.” | + | {{data.pair|Text|by Andrew Sullivan: “But my biggest misreading was not about competence. Wars are often marked by incompetence. It was a fatal misjudgment of [[George W. Bush|Bush]]'s sense of morality. I had no idea he was so complacent — even glib — about the evil that good intentions can enable. I truly did not believe that Bush would use [[9/11]] to tear up the [[Geneva Conventions]]. When I first heard of abuses at [[Gitmo]], I dismissed them as enemy propaganda. I certainly never believed that a [[conservative]] would embrace [[torture]] as the central thrust of an [[War on Terror|anti-terror strategy]] and lie about it, and scapegoat underlings for it, and give us the indelible stain of Bagram and Camp Cropper and [[Abu Ghraib abuses|Abu Ghraib]] and all the other secret torture and interrogation sites that Bush and [[Dick Cheney|Cheney]] created and oversaw. I certainly never believed that a war I supported for the sake of freedom would actually use as its central weapon the deepest antithesis of freedom — the destruction of human autonomy and dignity and will that is torture. To distort this by shredding the English language, by engaging in [[newspeak]] that I had long associated with [[American totalitarianism|totalitarian]] regimes, was a further insult. And for me, it was yet another epiphany about what [[US conservatism|American conservatism]] had come to mean.”</let> |
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