There’s a running conversation over at the Corner about the parallels between opposition to torture and pacifism, which is really just a thinly-veiled version of one of those tendentious hypotheticals about the nuclear bomb in Manhattan whose location (you know with apodictic certainty) can only be uncovered through the judicious application of thumbscrews. As such, the analogy suffers from the same two defects: One empirical, one conceptual.Good logic here.
With Jair Bolsonaro on Trial, Brazil Braces for U.S. Sanctions
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While Supreme Court weighs the fate of the former president on charges of
plotting a coup, Brazil’s government is preparing for more penalties.
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