TORTURE AND OUR CASUALTIES
Jonah Godberg made an interesting point in the latest issue of NR. He says that the world has understood the harsh reality that some innocents die in a war and it’s not immoral. So how can we say the torture of the truly despicable is a worse act? The rationale that the information you get from tortured prisoners is useless is purely anecdotal. There are no measurements.
The issue has also illuminated the two-faced media’s worry about American casualties. A few small atomic weapons could have leveled Baghdad and any other city that we felt harbored terrorists with minimal American losses. Our losses are a result of our humanity. We’re trading our lives to spare the lives of civilians. It would be very easy for someone to measure roughly how many American lives would have been saved had we only bombed from the skies and how many innocent lives would have been lost as a result. And if the media were truly concerned with American casualties foremost, then they would be making the point daily.
The torture issue is an example of how the media wants to make it more difficult for the military to accomplish the mission one the one hand while complaining that the mission is taking too long on the other.
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