U.S. has a 45-year history of torture

Los Angeles Times by A.J. Langguth | May. 3, 2009 (Opinion)

As President Obama grapples with accusations of torture by U.S. agents, I suggest he consult the former Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle.

I first contacted Daschle in 1975, when he was an aide to Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota, who was leading a somewhat lonely campaign against CIA abuses.

At the time, I was researching a book on the United States' role in the spread of military dictatorships throughout Latin America. Daschle ... Full Story »

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by Norman Rogers - May. 3, 2009

People who have never experienced crime or danger of death take an idealistic view of the world. This is sustainable only as long as everything is nice and the threat is remote. The author obviously falls into that camp. Lumping everything that is not perfect and ideal into the category of torture is typical academic stupidity.

If we rough up the people who want to kill us what is the problem?