So what should we make of this? Clearly there is a need for interrogation, but where does interrogation stop and torture begin?
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At a time when we are being relentlessly told that the war on terror is ultimately about ideas, ideologies, values or hearts and minds, it does the West's cause no good to be associated with torture in the world's dark basements.
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Torture does not simply degrade the torturer and his victims while giving succour to its apologists; it sullies any regime connected with it, along with those White House lawyers and their sinister attempts to justify it with distinctions about "intense" or "harsh" interrogation.
There is very little evidence that torture works.
History will not, and should not, treat us kindly.
Read the rest.
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At a time when we are being relentlessly told that the war on terror is ultimately about ideas, ideologies, values or hearts and minds, it does the West's cause no good to be associated with torture in the world's dark basements.
...
Torture does not simply degrade the torturer and his victims while giving succour to its apologists; it sullies any regime connected with it, along with those White House lawyers and their sinister attempts to justify it with distinctions about "intense" or "harsh" interrogation.
There is very little evidence that torture works.
History will not, and should not, treat us kindly.
Read the rest.
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