Fear was no excuse to condone torture
In the fear that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Americans were told that defeating Al Qaeda would require us to ``take off the gloves.'' As a former commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps and a retired commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, we knew that was a recipe for disaster.
But we never imagined that we would feel duty-bound to publicly denounce a vice president of the United States, a man who has served our country for many years. ...
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If you can ignore the moral repugnance of applying torture and the horrible psychological effect on the torturer, consider the well documented ineffectiveness of the technique and the creation of enough new terrorists to keep the military occupied far into the future (could this be why they did it).