Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Brit Foreign Secretary wags finger of righteousness at Syrian torturers

William Hague mounted the white horse of moral outrage to lecture Syria about the evils of torture today.

The occasion was the release of a report from Human Rights Watch documenting wide-spread torture in Syria.

It is well know that after 9/11 Syria was a popular destination for the Nations of Virtue to send suspects for "interrogation". Seems we knew all along that interrogators in Syria have a little more leeway than they have in Canada or the US or Britain.

Times have changed, don't you know. Not that long ago we were out-sourcing torture to Syria.

Now we're outsourcing civil war, and since we're on the side of freedom and democracy in that civil war, it's important to shout loudly about how repugnant it is that the Assad regime stoops to torture..

Political grandstanding at its finest!

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