McCain spent six years in a Vietnamese prison and he was brutally tortured almost daily. It left him … damaged, in a number of ways. And that experience, it would appear, seems to have effectively overridden his deeply embedded political programming and permanently rewired John McCain into a decent and compassionate human being. Again, in this one aspect only. You know, it’s goddamned appalling that you actually have to torture a Republican to get them to act like a decent moral human being, to live up the morals and the ideals and the exceptionalism that we, the United States of America, that shining city on the hill, are supposed to represent. You should already know that torture is wrong, un-American, illegal, immoral, and beneath the dignity of a free and just nation. - Jim Wright, Retired Naval Intelligence Officer
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 11:41:47 +0000