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[raver_diaz]

A person wrote a letter to the White House complaining about the treatment of a captive taken during the Afghanistan war. Below is a

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[msjulieraven]

I don't know if I should find this amusing.

Actually at the end I thought, "What an ass."

[raver_diaz]

orly?

Why is that?

[msjulieraven]

He's mocking the fact that this person is genuinely concerned about prisoners, no matter what they've done. I mean, we don't want them to hurt whoever from our side that they take prisoner, we don't want them to torture them, and even if they do that doesn't mean we should do it back. There is no longer eye for an eye.

[raver_diaz]

Yep, we are horrible torturing monsters.

Oh wait, we aren't.

The terrorists could use more bleeding hearts. Makes their decapitations and initial war-invoking actions seem a lot less significant and brutal.