A Conservative Against Torture

Actually, no, Andrew, it is an American position, quite clear in our Constitution, and more than that a universal position, shared around the world across many political ideologies as exemplified in the Geneva Conventions and other treaties.  You're straining to make a left-right divide out of a shared position opposed by extremists missing the empathy gene and a respect for the constitution.

Re: A Conservative Against Torture - Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:

We also have over a hundred deaths in US interrogation/custody. God knows how many of the murdered were innocent. You give government these tools - let alone one man with no oversight - and you are risking oblivion as a free society. This is a conservative position.

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Comments

[Don Laird]

Andrew Sullivan is right on.

If you do a search on "waterboarding," you can discover that those who support or defend it are nearly all self-identified conservatives. Some even promote it and other forms of torture. Those on the internet who oppose it seem to nearly all fall outside of the conservative camp or classification. So, Andrew is exactly correct to title his essay in the way he did: his title suggests and is an unusual position.

To claim that to be against torture is an American position is ridiculous. Americans, including officials, have tortured and murdered from day one. Bush has simply tried to justify it and has achieved world-wide attention for that.

I believe someone posted a crazy liberal position when he criticized Andrew for that. Delusion is everywhere.

Don Laird