Reply #9: Yep

[Solly Mack]

The whole "is water-boarding really torture?" bullshit a few years ago served that purpose.

If it's debatable, then how could anyone really be guilty? Because if it's debatable, then it becomes just a matter of opinion. And if it's opinion, then both sides of the "debate" become It is/It isn't. No different from he said/she said.

That's the narrative they were going for....to muddle the issue so much that fact had little chance of winning out. Keep it a "debate"...a matter of "opinion"....then the truth gets lost in the back and forth.

Competing books will be published. Competing articles will be written.

And it won't matter that some of those books show the facts....because it's all a matter of opinion now. The "truth" is up for debate. The facts are up for debate.

Because there will be no trials. There will be no accountability that sets the record straight.

Same thing with calling torture a "policy" difference. Raising taxes or not is a policy difference that can exist between 2 people. Whether or not to torture isn't a policy difference - since torture is a crime. Just not the same thing at all.