{"id":19059,"date":"2014-12-09T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19059"},"modified":"2014-12-09T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T02:28:13","slug":"we-need-not-risk-our-national-honor-to-prevail-in-this-or-any-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/12\/09\/we-need-not-risk-our-national-honor-to-prevail-in-this-or-any-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/we-need-not-risk-our-national-honor-prevail-or-any-war\" title=\"MSNBC video\" target=\"_blank\">full video of this politician presenting the case<\/a> in favor of releasing the torture report.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cBut in the end, torture\u2019s failure to serve its intended purpose isn\u2019t the main reason to oppose its use. I have often said, and will always maintain, that this question isn\u2019t about our enemies; it\u2019s about us. It\u2019s about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. It\u2019s about how we represent ourselves to the world.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<pre>\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This politician has gotten to the most fundamental of issues even better than what Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey have done.  Those two did make excellent remarks themselves, but I had to point out that there is no need for a cost\/benefit analysis on torture.  It is just something we ought not to do for exactly the reasons stated in the above quote from the video.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, I am glad that MSNBC has made it difficult for me to embed their video here.  You will have to navigate the link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/we-need-not-risk-our-national-honor-prevail-or-any-war\" title=\"MSNBC video\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018We need not risk our national honor to prevail in this or any war\u2019<\/a>, to see and hear the presentation and to find out who made these remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has the full video of this politician presenting the case in favor of releasing the torture report. \u201cBut in the end, torture\u2019s failure to serve its intended purpose isn\u2019t the main reason to oppose its use. I have often said, and will always maintain, that this question isn\u2019t about our enemies; it\u2019s about us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19060,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19059\/revisions\/19060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}