First, the setup from TPMm:
It won't surprise anyone that the least sympathetic portrayal in Phillipe Sands' Vanity Fair piece is of former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith.
Not only did Feith play a major hand in promoting the myth of Iraq's ties to Al Qaeda before the invasion of Iraq, but he also played a major role in developing the interrogation policy for Guantanamo Bay.Feith boasted to Sands that back in 2002, he "was really a player" in ensuring that Gitmo detainees would not receive Geneva protections. But when Sands asked him "whether, in the end, he was at all concerned that the Geneva decision might have diminished America's moral authority," Feith got nasty:
And now the quote:
"The problem with moral authority," he said, was "people who should know better, like yourself, siding with the assholes, to put it crudely."
Ah yes... for Feith the problem with moral authority would appear to be morality itself. For Feith morality should be thought of as a relative thing. Unfortunately for Feith, Jesus, among other notable people in human history, would not agree. In the fight against evil in our world, Jesus sided with, in Feith's words, "the assholes."
"For I was hungry, and you gave me food; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you took me in. Naked, you clothed me. Sick, you visited me, and when I was in prison, you came to me. Then the righteous shall say, "Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, when did we take you in? When have we clothed your nakedness, or visited you sick or in prison? And the King shall answer and say to them -- "Inasmuch as you have done these things for the least among you, you have done them for me."--Matthew 25:35-40
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