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Terror and fairness

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Mark Goldblatt, writing in today’s New York Post about fairness when it comes to how terrorists are treated while in U.S. custody, earned ‘quote of the day’ honors:

The debate over waterboarding has been framed as a question of whether America will live up to its highest ideals: Will we stoop to the level of our enemies or treat captured enemy combatants humanely? But this is a false choice.

In the first place, waterboarding KSM to obtain actionable intelligence isn’t stooping to his level. Drawing and quartering him as a warning to his fellow jihadis would be stooping to his level…

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9/11, conspiracy theories, September 11

Best actress also wins Dumber than a Post award

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Marion Cotillard questions the September 11th attacks and the moon landings

From the UK’s Telegraph:

Oscar-winning Marion Cotillard was facing embarrasment with her new American public last night after it emerged that she doubted the official account of the September 11 attacks. The 32-year-old French star has swept this year’s best actress awards, also receiving a Bafta, Golden Globe and a César for her performance as singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose.
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“I think we’re lied to about a number of things,” she said, singling out September 11. Referring to the two passenger jets flown into the World Trade Centre, Miss Cotillard said: “We see other towers of the same kind being hit by planes, are they burned? There was a tower, I believe it was in Spain, which burned for 24 hours. It never collapsed. None of these towers collapsed. And there [New York], in a few minutes, the whole thing collapsed.” Miss Cotillard suggested that the towers, planned in the early 1960s, were an outdated “money sucker” which would have cost so much to modernise that it was easier to destroy them.

Turning to America’s space programme, she said: “Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered. And in any case I don’t believe all they tell me, that’s for sure.”

Real life is not a movie script, Ms. Cotillard; 9/11 and the moon landings were not just rumors for you to believe or discount.

Hat tip: Hot Air