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And waterboarding? \u00a0Torture. \u00a0I\u2019m no expert, but it doesn\u2019t take more than an ant\u2019s brains to figure if we found our terrorists were waterboarding our troops we\u2019d be screaming from coast to coast. \u00a0And rightly so. \u00a0It is torture in the classic sense of the word. \u00a0Before the world heard of waterboarding, variations of it were long understood as horrifying, cruel and evil.<\/p>\n

And yet, for reasons that are beyond this brief post, modern conservatives have thrown their lot in with the torturers of the past, not just shamefully using the practice, but almost boasting of their willingness to do so. \u00a0Here is Sarah Palin<\/a>, whose star showed brightly for a brief time, and has since fallen to earth for most thinking people, pining for more torture via waterboarding. \u00a0And and not just advocating it, but invoking religious imagery connected to Christian rites and sacraments, an act one thinks of when thinking of Jesus and John the Baptist, of babies sprinkled and families celebrating a milestone in one\u2019s faith walk. \u00a0Sigh.<\/p>\n

When Francis Ford Coppola fused the assassination of the heads of the Five Families with the baptism of Michael Corleon\u2019s nephew in the classic The Godfather<\/i>, the juxtaposition is clear. \u00a0The sacred versus the profane. \u00a0What is good occurring alongside that which is evil. \u00a0Birth and new life, death and murder. \u00a0And here\u2019s Palin, mixing the two to whip up her followers and appeal to the base. \u00a0An appeal that rests heavily on a growing trend in our post-modern age: that right and wrong don\u2019t apply to us, they only apply to them. \u00a0The Right isn\u2019t the only ones to do this of course. \u00a0But since the Right claims to stand on the best of the past, one would expect better. \u00a0Especially since we\u2019ve seen where that attitude \u2013 the attitude that rules don\u2019t apply to us, just them \u2013 tends to lead.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"