A tortured stance on torture

Boston Globe by H.D.S. Greenway | Oct. 9, 2007 (Opinion)

Washington shuddered last week when The New York Times revealed that the Justice Department, under the direction of Alberto Gonzales, had undermined the will of Congress, the Supreme Court, as well as hard-won national and international standards with secret legal opinions supporting torture. "Shocking" was the word Republican Senator Arlen Specter used, and well he should.

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 by Roland F. Hirsch - Oct. 1, 2008

This opinion piece is very poor journalism. The author knows little of history and next to nothing about Islam. The respect for the U.S. in Muslim countries has grown substantially since the liberation of Iraq. The use of forced interrogations by the U.S. is not greater than in past wars, and on the whole prisoners are treated much better than in the past. There always are exceptions to the good treatment but the proportion of exceptions to the generally good treatment in the current war have been lower than before. The author is entitled to his opinions, but why this newspaper would waste its pages to print them is not obvious.

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