American Views Abroad

 
A very convincing argument is made in Ending the U.S. War in Iraq: How to Bring the Troops Home and Internationalize the Peace at www.ips-dc.org/iraq/bringthetroops.htm.

Anne Applebaum, columnist in The Washington Post, discusses The Torture Myth in her column today.

'Given the overwhelmingly negative evidence, the really interesting question is not whether torture works but why so many people in our society want to believe that it works. At the moment, there is a myth in circulation, a fable.... ....Radical terrorists are nasty, so to defeat them we have to be nastier. Perhaps it's reassuring to tell ourselves tales about the new forms of 'toughness' we need, or to talk about the special rules we will create to defeat this special enemy. Unfortunately, that toughness is self-deceptive and self-destructive. Ultimately it will be self-defeating as well.' www.washingtonpost.com.

- posted by Gloria @ 6:21 PM