-By Gary Krasner
Sen. Camila Harris, the black female hope for president, and shameless demagogue if there ever was one, kept asking that question.
Gina Haspel SHOULD have said the following.
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Senator, it was neither moral nor immoral. It was considered NECESSARY, and at the time, LEGAL, by the DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel.
Nations in crisis may have to do what is necessary, and that might be considered immoral, especially absent of mitigation. But there was mitigation—-the imperative to protect Americans.
The countervailing element was to save lives. Killing is immoral. Killing someone in self defense or to defend someone is moral.
Sen. Harris, you support extinguishing the life of an innocent baby. You voted for partial birth abortion. Your countervailing consideration is the convenience of the mother. Is abortion moral—yes of no?
Moreover, we tortured no one. waterboarding the way we do it is merely a discomfort, according to OLC. We do it to our own military as training for interrogation. But the way waterboarding has been done by evil regimes is absolutely considered torture by Geneva conventions, and the reason many Japanese military leaders were prosecuted as war criminals.
So taken in context, for a nation, “morality” is not always dispositive. But NECESSITY is always the prime consideration, and it’s often justified.
UNQUOTE
We need to have an adult conversation about this issue, and Democrats must stop the petty demagoguery and hypocrisy.