{"id":1610,"date":"2005-01-05T17:57:55","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T00:57:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-01-05T17:57:55","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T00:57:55","slug":"will-the-republicans-legalize-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/05\/will-the-republicans-legalize-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Republicans legalize torture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds, while claiming to be personally opposed to (<a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/oldarchives\/2001_11_04_instapundit_archive.html#6969567\" target=\"_blank\">legal<\/a>) torture (even before Alan Dershowitz was promoting it!) <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/020262.php\" target=\"_blank\">uses his bully pulpit to link every pro-torture argument<\/a> in the known universe while offering almost no opposing argument.  Reynolds even offers this caution against making torture an issue in the Gonzales hearings:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think the effort to turn this [torture] into an anti-Bush political issue is a serious mistake, and the most likely outcome will be, in essence, the ratification of torture (with today&#8217;s hype becoming tomorrow&#8217;s reality) and a political defeat for the Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, if the torture issue is raised , the Republicans will &#8220;ratify torture&#8221; and it will be the fault of people who oppose torture for raising the issue.  I guess that answers <a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/2004\/12\/wheres_the_cons.html\" target=\"_blank\">this question.<\/a>  And confirms <a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/2005\/01\/conservatives_p.html\" target=\"_blank\">this observation.<\/a>  No wonder <a href=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/unfairwitness\/2005\/01\/interrogation_b.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> is no big deal.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gonzales\" title=\"Gonzales\" src=\"http:\/\/ancapistan.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/gonzales.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/CEnter><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/norwegianity.com\/blog\/index.php?id=1021\" target=\"_blank\"><small><em>Gonzales poster via Norwegianity<\/em><\/small><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  Reynolds responds <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.com\/index.php?dish_inc=archives\/2005_01_02_dish_archive.html#110494343602883140\" target=\"_blank\">to this accurate criticism <\/a>by Andrew Sullivan by saying, &#8220;<em>And critics &#8212; and I&#8217;m explicitly including Andrew in this &#8212; don&#8217;t seem very interested in outlining what conduct is appropriate and what isn&#8217;t, but rather in blurring the lines.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, Glen, what is appropriate and what isn&#8217;t was outlined and agreed to long ago &#8211; it&#8217;s called the Geneva Convention, to which the US is a signatory.  That agreement is what Bush and Gonzales are trying to destroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds, while claiming to be personally opposed to (legal) torture (even before Alan Dershowitz was promoting it!) uses his bully pulpit to link every pro-torture argument in the known universe while offering almost no opposing argument. 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