As the President displays his brilliance in flip flopping back and forth whether to initiate an investigation of past CIA interrogations of terrorists, there is a question that comes mind – why? Why should Obama and the left care whether a terrorist is experiencing pain? If one has no problem if a baby is torn apart in a mother’s womb, or to euthanize the elderly – who cares about this stuff?
Especially Obama. Radically pro-abortion, he opposed legislation to ban partial birth abortion and granting the right to life to babies who survived an abortion. His step to federally fund embryonic stem cell research is hailed as breaking science from the bonds of religion, morality and ethics.
If you can create life and destroy it with the intent to save lives, why can’t you torture terrorists to save lives?
George Neumayr from the American Spectator explores this question:
One wonders why. What do they care? Having already accepted abortion and euthanasia — which are nothing more than the expedient killing of the unborn and the elderly — why should the expedient torture of terrorists, a lesser evil, trouble them? Oh, that’s right: the terrorists are guilty and the guilty under the ministrations of modern liberalism never suffer. Pain in modern life is for the innocent.
Terrorists, we’re told by pro-abortion liberals, suffer excruciating pain while the ejected unborn and euthanized elderly feel nothing. And even if the latter do suffer pain, say these liberals, that pain is worth it. After all, abortion and euthanasia sustain a pleasant and peaceful lifestyle for the strong. Let the dead bury the dead. Or, as the Supreme Court has said, imagine the disruption to America’s way of life if stare decisis in the case of Roe v. Wade disappeared and women couldn’t plan their careers and futures without the expectation of legal abortion for years to come.
Obama’s liberalism is not an opponent of human rights abuses but an embodiment of them. The CIA restricts itself to methods far less ruthless than those permitted by the platform of the Democratic Party. When will Obama bring his own platform into line with the Geneva Accords?
It is a little late in the day for Obama to worry about America’s moral reputation. Resisting evil even “when it is hard” hasn’t interested liberalism for at least four decades. It rests on an ideology of expedient evil and crass utilitarianism.
With St. Paul, Western civilization, before modern liberalism ransacked it, said: “One may not do evil so that good may result from it.” But then modern liberalism came along and reversed the formulation and now insists in the case of everything from therapeutic cloning to killing unborn children to dehydrating the elderly that one should do evil so that good may come from it.
Obama only now rediscovers the Christian ethic for terrorists, even as he weaves the “fabric of human destiny” with the tissue of tortured children.
President Obama and the left has no problem in inflicting pain and torture to Americans, but at least they draw the line when it comes to America’s enemies.
More articles of interest
Evangelical on Obama’s faith council: It’s as if he’s paying lip service to the unborn – Hot Air
Public to White House: Move on; Pentagon prepares to release more torture photos By Michelle Malkin
There Never Were Any ‘180 Waterboardings’ – Redstate
Rasmussen: 58% think Obama endangered nat’l security – Hot Air
Hillary Clinton Advocates Exporting Abortion – American Papist
Daily Gut: An America That Tortures by Greg Gutfeld
Another black mark for HUD nominee Ron Sims By Michelle Malkin
While I was out being famous… – The Anchoress
Filed under: Barack Obama, Culture of Life | Tagged: Abortion, Barack Obama, CIA interrogation, Culture of Life, Democratic Party, euthanasia, Roe v. Wade, Waterboard
The sad fact of the matter is that the evil done to our most innocent is done in the name of compassion! Our once great nation will continue to sink because of how we as a people and our backward laws treat the most vulnerable and innocent. The sanctity of life and the value it possesses is taking a beating in this culture of death. As Reagan said, “When we fail to be a nation under God, we become a nation gone under.”
By turning the womb into a morgue on one hand and saying with a straight face that the Gitmo terrorists may be eligible for welfare and stay on our soil once released just shows why no one that has any logic would ever see anything but moral retardation on a level never seen. Of course the hope of getting some free money gets the lazy to line up at the trough for a hand out. This is the manifesto of the enemies of America.