Monday, June 20, 2005
Idiot McCain
Rush is all over McCain this morning, but misses one basic point. McCain's own experience as POW runs against his current notions.
McCain says that we shouldn't treat POWs badly because future enemies will reciprocate. Did North Vietnam torture McCain in return for our horrible treatment of German and Japanese POWs in WW2? No. We treated those POWs quite well, by the standards of the time. So his own experience proves the opposite: Evil regimes will do evil regardless of our "moral example". The example is totally irrelevant.
(Here's the transcript of McCain interview on MSNBC.)
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Bit later: Rush has hit the basic point thoroughly, though from a different angle. Guess I should install a one-hour delay mechanism on my posting impulse generator! ¶ 10:19 AM
McCain says that we shouldn't treat POWs badly because future enemies will reciprocate. Did North Vietnam torture McCain in return for our horrible treatment of German and Japanese POWs in WW2? No. We treated those POWs quite well, by the standards of the time. So his own experience proves the opposite: Evil regimes will do evil regardless of our "moral example". The example is totally irrelevant.
(Here's the transcript of McCain interview on MSNBC.)
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Bit later: Rush has hit the basic point thoroughly, though from a different angle. Guess I should install a one-hour delay mechanism on my posting impulse generator! ¶ 10:19 AM
