His POV is, IMO quite similar to digital-think as manifested on more trivial levels ... by many who have imagined what George Boole imagined [because he said so, at the outset, re his New Logic postulate].

I've lost the exact quote but in essence he said (that he hoped) ~ "... that these ideas shall have some applicability in human discourse and debate ..."
And the watching is worth it because Jon Stewart obviously did his homework, even wading through much of the 'pseudoscience-of-the-law' bafflegab (also based on some fanciful musing that, simple declarative sentences can be parsed in an entirely Boolean-mindset manner to arrive at 'the Truth of the Matter' eg. precisely determine implicitly (!) ... a Just Punishment. cha.cha.cha.)

And then Jon concisely confronted each of Yoo's logical koans, brilliantly interspersing the rebuttal with the core of the Matter(s) and with al punte correlations to The Treaty and incentives for not breaching it. To wit:
We don't want OUR troops treated in a way which violates the treaty, and if we violate its implications -- we surely will see {more} such events.

These 3 videos seem to me to comprise a compact, valuable lesson for the thinking-minority, especially the yout-minority of thinkers on: how to have an entirely civilized discussion/debate with a person who has not yet learned the difference between legal pseudoscience (especially: aimed towards an expected.. nay demanded!? "answer" Desired-answer) towards an obvious malevolent End.. The man must have an impoverished definition of Reason, and is as ethics-free as Enron's lieutenants. These are not prerequisite qualities in academia nor have I met a professor who exhibits such. That Yoo is teaching, a stone's throw from LBL in Berkeley ... is a wretched factoid.

Nor can his affected affability excuse his immaturity and infantile sense of humanity as in, humane.
Armani-clad creep, is my summary judgment. But I possess no legions with which to drum him out of the Corps. Life: a crap shoot.



To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The more enlightened we become, the darker it seems to get.
-- Vance Rodewalt


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