Friday, October 5, 2007

Meanings and Meaninglessness

“We do not torture.”

At what point do those words lose their meaning? At what point can we say that those words are, in fact, incomprehensible? And what does it mean when we’ve reached that point?

With the ways that this administration has parsed, dissembled, and outright lied about this topic I don’t feel that anyone can say, with any authority, that they know what the words, “We do not torture” mean anymore.

I don’t know what to do about that.

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