Regarding the May 14 letter, “Calling it ‘torture’ waters down term”: The torture advocate and his screwed-up moral compass is similar to a Richard Nixon view of the law: If the president (America) does it, it is thereby legal (right).
I joined the Navy in 1960 when I was 17 because I didn’t want the bastards to be able to draft me. I immediately discovered the priority mission: Don’t look like a sissy to my 17- to 20-year-old shipmates. Parallel with it was another imperative. While everyone knows that any one seaman can whip any three officers, jarheads, military police or civilians, you don’t let them drown.
You don’t drown people and you don’t pretend to drown people — period.
Torture apologists, whether Cheney, Krauthammer, McCain, the CIA, bin Laden or al-Qaida, are an embarrassment to humanity.
The letter writer’s assertion that a string of crimes can both personify and preserve “America’s moral compass” is a crime against language and it is really making my head hurt.
Wayne C. Evans
Bothell
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