thoughts on torture

[eirias]

Something occurred to me yesterday about the administration's soft line on torture. Why would an administration acquiesce to the use of torture in a war they could win without that particular PR stain, and without that particularly unreliable information-gathering method? I think the fact that torture is so widespread is a pretty clear indication not only that we're losing this war now, but that we probably aren't going to win it at all.

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

no? i think the memos would demonstrate just that: that torture was emerging as a behavior, and nobody was taking any steps to stop it.

(and yes, i think the torture was emerging as a behavior among the memo-writers, as well as among the people with their paws on other people.)