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Torturers.
09-Dec-14I don’t like to linger very long on what human beings do to one another – it’s not really the kind of thing that makes one better. I don’t like Holocaust Museums, and Holocaust Studies, and all that. The only decent reaction I can come up with is something like the Nuremberg Trials – put these men in the docket for a few days, let them say their say about how necessary and justified it all was, have the court reporter write it all down, hang them and go home. I doubt that we will get any justice on this planet – and God will be adequate to the task anyway, I do not doubt – but presuming that this senate report on U.S. torture tactics is true, then every single person whose hands are stained by this – including President Bush and perhaps Obama as well – should be put on trial and the guilty ones should hang for it.