The Anonymous Liberal on Republican torture logic:
So let’s review the basic GOP position. Torture (sorry “enhanced interrogation”) is good and saves lives. It does not incite or radicalize the Muslim world or help al Qaeda recruit. Releasing pictures of it, however, does do all of these things. Also, if we stop torturing people, this leads to an al Qaeda recruiting bonanza.
To say that none of this makes any sense is an extreme understatement.
Ari Melber attacks the Torture Works™ debate on MSNBC:
Morton: And yet there are others who would say that the waterboarding helped. It helped provide information…
Melber: But Joe, even if we put that aside and say that might be possible, there are leaders throughout the world who would say that genocide helps security, that canceling elections helps security, that fascism helps security. At some point here the whole issue is that we have to move beyond the framework of just saying torturing someone or killing someone worked, and be bound by the rule of law.