When the United States, with our coalition partners, invaded Afghanistan, there was a direct link between who and where the enemy was. When the United States, without global support invaded Iraq, we were no longer fighting those who were responsible for 911 and in fact created more enemies than we had before. We are in far more danger of a terror attack on U.S. soil for having gone into Iraq.
The Patriot Act (who would want to vote against anything named that) was supposed to provide intelligence agencies greater investigative tools to protect U.S. citizens. But the actual content of this Act allows for the very violation of our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties. The means does not and cannot justify the ends.
I do not want, for example, a suspect tortured to gleam information that may or may not protect me from another attack. What ever happened to “two wrongs don’t make a right.” Didn’t we learn that in kindergarten?
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