As crazy as it sounds, what Hannity advocates is the type of “our side vs. their side” tribalism that means anything goes as long as the people doing it believe the ends justify the means. This mirrors what Dick Cheney, one of the architects and cheerleaders of “enhanced interrogation” techniques, said explicitly on Fox News: BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS: Sir, did the ends justify the means? FORMER VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY: Absolutely. BRET BAIER: No doubt in your mind? DICK CHENEY: No doubt in my mind, I’m totally comfortable with it. Even that morally dubious position is meaningless in the wake of what we now know about the CIA’s torture program: It didn’t work. The entire premise that Hannity has clung to is predicated on the idea that torturing people saved countless lives, or averted another 9/11, or helped find bin Laden. It did none of those things. It caused many people to suffer. It caused many innocent people to suffer. It made the United States look hypocritical and barbaric. It made the Bush administration look like monsters. It didn’t help us fight the War on Terror. Nor will Hannity’s idiotic tweets help win the argument that torture is good. They just make him look like the worst person on Fox — and that’s saying something.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:20:51 +0000
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