Terrorism and Torture
There is an excellent article by Hendrik Hertzberg in the New Yorker on terrorism and torture. A quote:
...just as the victims of torture are utterly helpless, the perpetrators of it are utterly debased. Like capital punishment, torture is abhorrent not only for what it does to the tortured but for what it makes of the torturer. It is the perfect opposite of what we like to think our country has stood for. It is surely not what we wish to become.Also in the New Yorker is Unembedded, journalist Hampton Side's article on why he backed out of being an embedded journalist. [Links via Bloviator who has some very good commentary of his own.]
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