I'm Tired of Torture Tolerance

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This article strikes to the heart of what is wrong today in American politics. And to think that the successful Fort Hunt interrogations of the Nazis after WW2 gained access to most of the information kept secret by German scientists and professionals through non-violent interrogation and pacification.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR2007100502492_pf.html

Isn't that what is wrong today? We are not accepting the information coming from our "enemy" or creating an environment in which it is even possible (and where we can LEARN SOMETHING). The terrorists primary goal is to eliminate Western influence in the Middle East and stop supporting Israel's perpetual Palestinian discrimination. They have their own highways, their possessions are being stolen or destroyed, lives ruined and the international community tolerates this. (well, mainly the US, as we are often the sole veto of UN resolutions critical of Israel) They have consistently said this yet we refuse to believe that their reactions logically follow from our ACTIONS. Did segregation after slavery work? Did apartheid work?

Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews attacked during peaceful Passover prayer protest of Zionist violence and land grabbing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KxsMad9eHM

Will their prayers ever be answered? If anyone is serious about the possibility of Middle East peace perpetuating then the first logical step is to offer the Palestinians the same peace that we selfishly expect for ourselves. Like the article on torture mentions, the only candidates running in 2008 who have even addressed this basic yet critical change in the view of what we as Americans believe as "inalienable rights" or that all men and women are created equal is Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich.

Elizabeth Kucinich even mentioned that a Paul/Kucinich ticket is certainly a possibility, a bipartisan White House in '08?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjiGuOsKr04

Terrorism worldwide has increased sevenfold comparing the period after 9/11 to "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and the beginning of the Iraq War to now.
http://www.motherjones.org/news/featurex/2007/03/iraq_effect_1.html

In 2005, more than 6000 veterans committed suicide, and the numbers are on the up since the beginning of the war in Iraq. More "Iraqi Freedom" veterans have committed suicide in the past 4 years than casualties from battle
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2873622.ece

The only way to end terrorism is to compromise. This is how agreements are reached, ideas evolve and LIFE CHANGES.

"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one nation the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens who devote themselves to the favorite nation, facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation."
- George Washington

I look at the world today and I cringe at the possibility of me having to explain this disaster to my kids. I don't want them learning about terrorism or having society ingrain in them excuses to discriminate and disrespect other human beings. It is a terrible environment in which to raise a human being. If Children of Men said anything to me it was that, but there is always Tomorrow and we might as well get on the ship today.

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