Moral Relativism Run Amok

The intellectual shortcomings of the Obama administration these days remind me of the “War Is Not Pro-Life” bumper sticker. How narrow-minded and ordinary to express moral outrage at the waterboarding of three murderous and unrepentant jihadists, all the while blithely absolving thousands of U.S. physicians annually performing over a million abortions of any complicity in an immoral act.

The CIA officers who carried out “enhanced interrogation techniques”, and who sought legal cover from Bush White House lawyers are apparently safe, even though they were the ones who invented the techniques, not the lawyers. The lawyers merely provided the legal support for procedures whose aim was to prevent another attack on Americans. The Obama administration abstained from including CIA agents in the indictment “trial balloon” only to avoid political fallout from attacking those who put their lives on the line for the country, not because of any close parsing of culpability. The Bush guys are just far safer political targets.

And, just like the afore-mentioned physicians, the CIA guys were operating within a legal system, under procedures sanctioned by lawyers. The CIA officers are sworn to protect this country, while the physicians take an oath: “First, do no harm” (and then proceed to do just that). The CIA “tortures” adults who’ve directed and celebrated the killing of Americans; the doctors end the lives of babies whose only crime was to be conceived.

I must be so stupid not to see the clear intellectual and moral superiority of the current administration to the previous—if only a single Democrat could explain this puzzling conundrum.

By all means, let’s “restore science to its rightful place” and help our President figure out when life begins.