#mukasey

ive got the mukasey hearing on right now. wow, attorney general appointments... id hate to get one of those. they may find a good one, though hell be inheriting one shithole of a department.

anyway, theyre talking about torture. im also reading from the WWI portal on wikipedia... and im thinking, war is touted as 'good' for the economy. that claim is dubious for both realistic and moral reasons. however, in terms of innovation, i would say that it does put a desperate and imperative demand out there which always creates a nice race (ie. sputnick, apollo, the manhattan project). i was thinking about that because of the u-boats used by the germans in WWII.

how does this relate to torture? well, torture is of course barbaric as well as an age-old technique of savages. but it is a technique, and aside from the various fronts of warm-blooded peoplawns, war is a competition of techniques. whoever has the most innovation and the best implementation is generally better off.

torture, on the other hand, is just lazy and ineffective. actually, i dont want to say ineffective, because id need to prove the case. some people try to do this or to discredit today's program, and true or not, ill leave it at lazy. i say lazy because we should have developed our techniques beyond that just as we have developed beyond sending a soldier to fight with a longsword and chainmail. likewise, couldnt electronic monitoring could also be more innovative rather than lazy and unconstitutional?