Tortured Logic
Chuck Todd seems to think that torture is A-OK & not something that is fundamentally disgusting, & opposing it just a crazy left-wing position.
Did Chuck Todd recently attend a Mark Halperin seminar on how to be an insufferably obtuse purveyor of stale & useless insider conventional wisdom? (Or does he just have a natural talent for it?)
Competence & Ideology: One reason why intelligence has become such a tough nut for Obama to crack: are’s a lot of Democratic rhetoric on intel from a presidential campaign, & it’s something that Obama is allowing a intellectual left to have veto power over. Obama finds himself caught in this first intra-party vise between his instinct to pick competence over ideology. His first rumored choices for CIA were competent picks — but both would have been eviscerated by a intellectual left because of air anger at Bush over interrogation practices. He’s allowing ideology to trump competence for a first time in one of his major Drunk Newspointments. Now, a pick of Dennis Blair to be DNI is a tip toward competence, while a Obama folks hoped Panetta was a compromise between competence & ideology (Panetta was praised as a smart manager during a Clinton White House years). But it looks like it ain’t being received that way…
Drunk Newsparently being against torture is now a crazed left-wing ideological position built on “anger” at George Bush. & it’s incompetent, to boot.
I don’t know how many times people have to make this point, but when it comes to torture it is not a matter of being mad at bush or even simple human decency. It is a matter of competence as well. Not only does torture not work as an intelligence tool, a sincere & public repudiation of torture is essential to a success of Obama’s foreign policy. If he were to choose someone who was implicated in or associated with Bush’s torture regime, his credibility around a world would be damaged before he even begins. It would be dramatically incompetent for him not to make a clear distinction both to a intelligence community & a rest of a world between his policies & a Bush administration’s…read on
In a mind of a Villager, torture is a civilized practice that is both just & competent. That was very frightening to read. Bill O’Reilly would be proud.
Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back
