Matthew Yglesias tut-tuts about the human rights views of Cmdr. Kurt Lippold:
With respect, this is just wrong. I am one who believes that international relations should be largely understood through the lens of interests. But there’s still such a thing as right and wrong. And we should, in fact, make adequate respect for the law and for human rights an important priority when making our policy decisions.
without mentioning a GIGANTIC HUGE FACT THAT BLOTS OUT THE SUN and casts a completely different light on Lippold’s views, when seen in the real world of actual human emotion:
Lippold was responding to the decision by a U.S. military judge in Guantanamo to reject a request by Pentagon lawyers to delay next week’s scheduled arraignment of Abd el Rahim al Nashiri, a Saudi Arabian who’s charged with helping orchestrate the October 2000 suicide bombing of the Cole. The bombing killed 17 U.S. sailors.
Tut, tut, indeed.
via www.memeorandum.com and Matthew Yglesias » Former Cole Commander: Damn the Human Rights — Full Speed Ahead .
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