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Rath said:
Tyrannical said:

 

Well, what's your preferance? Physical torture or pyschoactive drugs?

Neither is just a cop out answer.

 

Isn't neither the only sensible answer for somebody against torture?

 

You're right, dead right. But dead just the same if you can't get the information out of them.



Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
 — Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire