It’s about who we are
I came across this quote by senator John McCain from a debate in 2005 about whether the U.S. should use interrogation methods classified as torture under the Geneva convention or not. It’s so eloquently spoken and totally captures the core of the issue so I thought I had to post it here.
There was a dramatic encounter during the floor debate last week when Senator Jeff Sessions, a Republican from Alabama, spoke out against the legislation, saying there was no need for it because, as he put it, the detainees are not prisoners of war, “they are terrorists.”
Senator McCain, of Arizona, argued that the debate “is not about who they are. It’s about who we are.”
