Now here's a curiosity. Read this and see if you can spot the flaw.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/op...fri2.html?_r=1

Oh hell - here, I'll help you out.

"Oddly, the government seemed to have less trouble acknowledging that
some detainees had been tortured. Those incidents were “mistakes,”
Qorbanali Dori-Najafabadi, a top judiciary official, told a news
conference. Iran’s Constitution and law prohibit torture; however, the
2008 State Department human rights report cites numerous credible
reports over the years in which security forces and prison personnel
tortured prisoners.

The government should be ferreting out and putting an end to these
abuses."

You see - this is the kind of fuzzy logic that most "progressives"
tend to use when confronted with reality.

You get the government to investigate the abuses that the government
perpetrated in the first place because it's abusing it's power to
maintain it's power.

What baffles me is that most of the editorial writers are liberal arts
majors - which, one would think, includes a course or two in
philosophy and/or philosophical logic and not Basic and Advanced
Sophistry.

“You should ferret out the people in your government who are involved
in rape, torture and other human rights abuses, and put an end to
same.”

Seriously?

This is the problem - our progressive liberal establishment actually
believes that if you want to call attention to the behavior of
rapists, murderers and torturers, you have to be respectful and
pretend that the thuggery and terrorism were accidents of bureaucratic
oversight or inattention and not an actual political decision and
policy.

Oh, and that their opinion on the subject actually matters to the
perpetrators.