Extreme Measures

This is a troubling book.  Extreme Measures is about the need of torture in this current battle with terrorists.  I don't know this Vince Flynn guy, but he sure comes from the right as far as condoning torture to get good information.  This flys in the face of what we read and what we sense by reading about Gitmo and rendition practices. 

Making the decision to brutally torture or not is easy in these books. You haul in people who obviously have the worst intent for the US.  It is known that they are through and through blackguards by our heros. Only foolish people would think it unwise to pop a shoulder out of a socket to get incriminating evidence or the key to the terrorist's plot.  

That is just a too, too simplified way of looking at this battle.  We don't usually know for sure that the people we pick up are villans and we surely don't know that torture will make them give us the information we need at the right time.  I could read the first 1/3 and the last 1/3 of the book.  It got a little preachy in the middle because of how detestable those liberals were.  

Do you think Mrs. Dalloway will get this tatse out of my mouth?  I do have to admit that I liked the bad guys getting killed in the end, so maybe Mrs. Dalloway will be too tame.

Tribune has declared bankruptcy.  No more paychecks from them.  Guess who I'll be calling tomorrow!