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December 18, 2003
What we can offer Saddam
The news channels are naturally featuring a lot of talk right now about the interrogation of Saddam Hussein, discussions of what kind of methods are within bounds and out of bounds to use in getting information from him.
They pretty much all agree, however, that we have the basic limitation of having nothing to offer Hussein. He's not going to be motivated to co-operate because we really can't offer him a deal. It's pretty clear that we don't have a lot of wiggling room here. Sooner or later, we're going to pretty much just hand him over to the Iraqis for a public trial and execution.
To make what seems like an obvious point that no one else seems to be catching, "sooner or later" is what we've got to offer him. That might be quite a bit.
In a nutshell, the best "deal" we can offer him: The more useful stuff you tell us, the longer we hold off your inevitable day of reckoning. You shut up like a clam, we might turn you over in January. You sing like a frickin' canary, maybe we can put it off for as long as a year or two.
The special beauty of his capture is that he absolutely destroyed his whole mythology for the sake of being taken in alive rather than killed last weekend. That would seem to suggest that the promise of a few more months alive might be plenty enough to motivate the rat bastard.
Help us find some of that WMD stash, and maybe we'll put off handing you over to Iraqis for six months. You don't want to play? There's a bus for Baghdad leaving tomorrow.
Am I a bad person for having utterly NO sympathy for the personal suffering of this ex-tyrant? Possibly. Yet I can't seem to work up any guilty feelings- none at all.
I don't particularly take glee in his suffering per se. For my part, I'd be happy to just see him goddam shot and done with. On the other hand, keeping him around for awhile seems like good strategery on several counts- and if that involves some suffering for him, I don't care. Brother, you asked for it.
Any benefit that can be had in the world by humiliating, beating or executing this MASS MURDERER is all to the good. We probably don't need to actually physically torture him and it would probably actually work against our interest, but I wouldn't give it a second thought on a moral level if I thought it would accomplish something.
One of the benefits of this war is that we are making an example of Hussein personally. THIS is what you can look forward to if you support terrorists. That's right, your biggest bully in the schoolyard will be hunt down and killed or humiliated, or whatever the US decides to do.
Any questions?
posted by Al at 12/18/2003 02:52:00 AM
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