...[S]uper tough guy/war cheerleader Michael Goldfarb of the The Weekly Standard labeled my post from earlier this morning on John Yoo's Torture Memo "self-righteous lefty demagoguery" (people who oppose torture are leftists, of course) and swaggered up and said this:
I haven't really been following this issue, mostly because I'm pretty sure that whatever the government is doing to these terrorists wouldn't "shock my conscience." Like my man Scalia says, sometimes you're going to have to take these terrorists and "smack them in the face." But, some folks are more easily shocked than I am, and they are in full moral outrage mode this morning with the release of a 2003 memo by John Yoo (now a professor at Berkeley!) approving "harsh interrogation techniques." Oh, the humanity!The Churchillian toughness oozes off the page. Harper's Scott Horton today posted a photograph of the casual, civilized, mild "face-smacking" that Yoo's memo led to at Abu Grahib:
But warriors like Goldfarb could endure such treatment easily, without batting an eye, so they don't see what all the fuss is about. It's just some manly playfulness that would never upset real warriors like him and his boss, Bill Kristol. They're far too tough and hardened to the gritty realities of Civilization Wars (which they watch with Churchillian relentlessness on the TV) to get upset by a little "face-slapping" and "torture." Let's get back to the fun, invigorating war cheerleading...~lee.
ps. it's like i heard one reasonable man once say: "it's not about who they are, it's about who we are." that reasonable man? john mccain. of course he said that a long time ago...
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