Lionel -AirHead

Lionel philosophizes on the importance of life. Mine.

... and yours

This guy Lionel's Lionel Air Head radio show was recently added to the most spectacularly unsuccessful network in US history.  Air America.  That's really an unfairly perjorative intro to his Huff Post article What Would You Not Do to Stop a Nuke?,  but what the hell. The Hypothesis “ Assume, arguendo, this hypothetical. It is Inauguration day. President Obama is about to be sworn is as 44. Virtually everyone in federal office is there. Congressmen, Senators, the Supremes, the new cabinet. Get the picture? You, a federal law enforcement type, have in your custody a man who you reasonably believe knows where a nuclear device is to be detonated nearby. Remember, this isn't just any old nuclear device threat. If this baby is detonated, virtually every aspect and player of and in our government will be vaporized. The device will be detonated within the hour. There's no time to evacuate, no place to run. Any warning will be futile and just inspire mayhem and chaos. Now, the question. What would you not do to locate that nuclear device? ” Horry clap Lionel, way to skew the results!  For our purposes let's assume, arguendo, that the target location is your house. M-kay? Let's get a few things straight. “ Now, let's be axiomatic, shall we? Torture is bad. It's un-American and violates our values and the provisions of the Geneva Conventions. And when you consider that torture was essentially okayed on Bush's watch by his henchmen, especially that snarling Cerberus, Mr. Potter, big Dick Cheney, I mean, it's certainly enough to enrage you. When I think of John Yoo, advocating torture's praxis, parsing what is and isn't torture (organ failure?), I want to waterboard him myself. Why is it that the biggest advocates of war and torture appear to be the biggest wimps. ” Well, I reckon his axioms are acceptable if the audience is a pack of Liberal canker-blossoms, and it is. But what's that "... biggest advocates of war [are] the biggest wimps" deal?  Let's not get too carried away with the hyperbole, Lionel.  He  continues blah-blah-blah until finally concluding -- “ As my Hell's Kitchen buddy says, "All's I'm saying is what if it worked?" I don't think it does. Listen to me, there I go again. The expert. No, I intuitively believe that as actual experts have noted, it doesn't work, [ahem] the results are not trustworthy, it violates international law and tells the world that we haven't a leg to stand on (there's a torture pun somewhere) in complaining when a downed or captured American serviceman is tortured. ” Lionel of course is full of liberal crap, and I don't for a minute believe that if his ass was on the line he'd scream bloody murder over any methodology that led to stopping the detonation of a nuke.  But, what if I'm wrong?  So, let me repeat his question this way. What would you not do to Lionel if he was protecting the terrorist from being interrogated about the location of that nuclear device?"