Until now, it had only been an abstract policy debate to me. This latest cover from The Week magazine changed all that, however:
How can any nation do this to a human being?
Especially when the evidence is overwhelming that the information it elicits isn’t accurate?
Especially when every credible expert in this field unequivocally calls this torture?
Especially when that which it purports to decrease, terrorism, is only incited in the minds of those disgusted by the hypocrisy of a nation that would preach “justice” and yet do this?
We’re the good guys. We’ve been the good guys for fifty years. We still can be. But:
It doesn’t matter if the one being tortured is man or woman, white-skinned or dark-skinned, Christian or Muslim or Jew or atheist, American citizen or no. We must be better than this.