Syllogistic Sloppiness

McCain directly offered that the USA has, in fact, been torturing prisoners.

To avoid accusation of an out-of-context clip, I’m quoting the whole thought/paragraph:

So we have a long way to go in our intelligence services. We have to do a better job in human intelligence. And we’ve got to — to make sure that we have people who are trained interrogators so that we don’t ever torture a prisoner ever again.

Seeing as how there’ve been four “wars” after WW2 when the Geneva Convention was formulated, he couldn’t have meant anything other than recent events, whereby ‘recent’ I mean post-GC.

If one has stopped an activity, then that activity was stoppable, therefore it was occurring.

So McCain—who belabors every point that he knows the military and knows what’s going on in the military—confesses that this country has been torturing prisoners.

Thanks for the information. Huge, heartfelt props for the candor.

Apropos of nothing other than the Cowardly Liar’s track record: “maverick” is not a term that one uses on one’s self. It’s a judgment of one or more people that’s directed at a third party. Saying “I’m a maverick” is tantamount to “I’m buying into my own mythos.”

You can’t stand up there in front of a planetary audience having been n a powerful legislative body (perhaps the most powerful) for twenty-six years, follow the special rules into forming and heading a campaign, only to stand at podia with a running made, obeying all the forms of the particular forum of debate and call yourself a maverick.

It’s untoward! It’s not toward!