Nobody knows the effects of leaving your child alone to cry ... To leave your child to cry, for even a minute, goes against every instinct and social response. ... We were not torturers, of course, or kapos, despite the workings of my overactive guilty imagination. What separated us from them — ... was, of course, intention. ... Intention, however, is a thin defense. Love has never prevented people from mistreating their children ... And indeed—for here is the thing—the Bush administration has relied very heavily on the excuse of good intentions in its bid to make torture acceptable to Americans.

He is always asking to be judged by the morality of his intentions. He doesn't understand that no one cares about his fucking morality. We judge him by the consequences of his actions. In any case, his morality is so muddy and ill-considered. I'm increasingly coming to the opinion that Blair's main problem is that he's not very bright.