What puzzles me is that humankind has known, from the time of the inquisition, that torture doesn't get you the truth: it gets the person being tortured to admit to anything to get the torture to stop.
So what is the dynamic of what went on here? Simply put, people in power were able to sadistically injure and humiliate by proxy ,and smugly believed that they would never, ever have to face the consequences.
Every member of the Bush administration involved with ordering and approving torture should be at
However, that is just about as likely to happen as for pigs to fly.
But unless, and until, this happens, the United States will remain quite a different country from the country in which we grew up, one in which the use of torture as an instrument of interrogation is accepted, and has become the norm.
That moment, from the White House on down, when torture became "normalized was the moment this government lost any credentials as a moral leadership for either its citizens or the world.
And do you think for one moment the
Better think again.
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