Quote of the Day: Seymour Hersh
"The real thing in the mind of this president is he wants to reshape the Middle East and make it a model. He absolutely believes it. I always thought Henry Kissinger was a disaster because he lies like most people breathe and you can't have that in public life. But if it were Kissinger this time around, I'd actually be relieved because I'd know that the madness would be tied to some oil deal. But in this case, what you see is what you get. This guy believes he's doing God's work."
- Seymour Hersh, quoted in an interview with Speigel Online.
posted by Fergie @ 9/30/2007 05:33:00 PM
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Does this necessarily mean God wants big prisons full of torturers? Children blown up in airstrikes? An entire country, collaterally damaged? Not the God I know.
I watched a Heritage Day special on apartheid prisons here in South Africa last week; the widespread humiliation, the strip-searches, the torture-cell, the sleep-deprivation and beatings and dousing of prisoners in cold water on winter's nights - and I thought: Guantanamo. These goons would've loved Jack Bauer.
The most famous prisoners in the Fort overlooking what is now Constitution Hill? Nelson Mandela and Mohandas K. Gandhi. You have to wonder why.
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