Tuesday 19 May 2009
The Bush Doctrine is the source of all this horror. The idea that you can invade another country simply because they might pose a threat someday is nothing more that than the illegal concept of preventive war (which the Bushies simply rebranded as “preemptive” war.) And it’s what leads to the idea that you can torture and imprison indefinitely in the name of that war. You don’t need a real ticking time bomb, just the belief that there might be one someday. Torture, therefore, is an intrinsic feature of the Bush Doctrine. It all flows from there. Hullabaloo ☀
