Cliff May Interview

I have to give kudos to a man named Cliff May, he's the first guy in defense of what I believe to be torture who has actually made some sense. I also have to give kudos to Jon Stewart of the Daily Show, who has again proven to have the ability to do the kind of hard-hitting serious interviews you almost never see on TV news any more.

Here are the three parts of the interview. Very thought provoking.

I've only just finished watching them, and will likely need to watch them a few more times before I fully absorb them and can comment, but the initial impression I have is that while May makes some very good points, he misses one extremely important one: While there may be honest debate over what really does constitute torture, the fact is that waterboarding is unambiguous. It has been considered torture historically, it has been tested and found to be torture, it is not ambiguous.

I'm also going to get around to reading the so-called "torture memos" tonight, so there will probably be another post on them if I feel so inclined.

Meanwhile, watch this. Regardless of what your opinion is on torture, it's a pretty good airing of both sides, and hopefully you can come away from it with a better sense of what the other side believes, even if your own mind is not changed.

Liam.

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Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 1
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Cliff May Unedited Interview Pt. 3
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