It's Our Cage, Too - Torture Betrays Us and Breeds New Enemies

Washington Post by Charles C. Krulak, Joseph P. Hoar | May. 17, 2007 (Opinion)

These assertions that "torture works" may reassure a fearful public, but it is a false security. We don't know what's been gained through this fear-driven program. But we do know the consequences.

As has happened with every other nation that has tried to engage in a little bit of torture -- only for the toughest cases, only when nothing else works -- the abuse spread like wildfire, and every captured prisoner became the key to defusing a potential ... Full Story »

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Terry Hinshaw
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 by Terry Hinshaw - Oct. 1, 2008

I believe that I have to agree with the writer who argued that there’s a persistent intellectual incoherence in the anti-torture voices. They often can’t decide whether they’re against torture because it doesn’t work or whether they oppose it solely on moral grounds. He argues that "[T]his confusion reflects their own sense of their argument’s weaknesses. If you add up the consensus of informed opinions, torture sometimes gets you some really useful and actionable information, and sometimes gets you utter rubbish."

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