I am forever fascinated by people who believe water-boarding constitutes “torture” and torture must never be used under any circumstances.

Where do such people live? In bomb shelters? In remote mountaintop villages with secure reservoirs and prevailing wind patterns that would carry fallout from nuclear or bio-weapons in another direction?

How about la-la land?

Spare me any arguments about “morality,” especially from those who have told us–for decades–that all morality is “relative.” And speaking of relatives, the idea that the “rights” of some terrorist with knowledge of a nuclear weapon about to explode in an American city supersede those of my relatives–the ones about to be atomized–is pure, unadulterated crap.

There is no such thing as morality in a vacuum. Those who would countenance the extermination of millions of their fellow countrymen in order to “maintain the moral high ground,” are not moral. They are fools for whom good intentions trump anything remotely resembling reality.

Ironically, these “vacuum moralists” are much like terrorists: willing to sacrifice someone besides themselves for the “purity” of their cause. They are more than willing to see other Americans “take one for the team” if it preserves their sense of integrity.

Not me, pal. Not my father, mother, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews or friends. However, if YOU want to stand at Ground Zero waiting for the blast–while hectoring the rest of us about the immorality of torture under any circumstances–you go right ahead.

atahlert@comcast.net

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