It amused me to hear the British Government saying that the American Government's use of waterboarding when interrogating suspects "amounts to" torture. Surely if something "amounts to" then it is? Or is torture a concept like the war crime--something that only applies to the Enemy?
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The rheotoric is, who is the Enemy?
Indeed.
I tend to think Tom Robbins had it best: "The enemy is the tyranny of the dull mind."
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