The question of the moral acceptability of torture may have been shrugged off by officials, but a new Senate report to be released soon is going to show that the strategy wasn’t particularly effective either.
According to those familiar with the probe, it is going to show that despite Bush Administration claims to the contrary, torturing suspects didn’t produce any serious intelligence coups, and played no significant role in finding bin Laden.
Former officials have loudly defended the practice, insisting it wasn’t “technically” torture under US law, and a new book called “Hard Measures” to be published next week by a former top CIA official is going to claim that the practices “saved American lives.”
The Senate report will not only throw these claims into doubt, but will also reportedly include instances when torturing suspects produced false leads. The CIA has defended the policies as well, but insisted that it has never carried out any studies to see if they actually work.
Torture is evil. Torturers and supporters of torture are evil people. Countries that adapt torture, under any new name or excuse, are evil countries. "Hard Measures" are new words for evil acts by evil people. Saving lives is an excuse for committing acts of evil.
Americans who adapt evil are committing the worse kind of treason to their country. Media outlets that excuse evil are traitors to everything Americans believe in. Evil cannot be watered down because the perpetrators of evil acts have changed names (from the Soviet Union to the US). There is no new definition for evil – evil is still and always will be what it is, evil.
Not only is torture immoral, unlawful, ineffective and counterproductive, the Pentagon officials should think of the practical implications. Like, if we torture them, won't that invite them to torture us?
Because refusal to prosecute American Law is rife in America, there needs to be arrests on foreign Soil, Geneva allows ANY country to prosecute War Crimes, if a member country refuses to prosecute their own, it is even a war crime to allow some one who has committed a Grave Breach of Geneva not to be Prosecuted. Now we KNOW that Bush and his cronies refuse to leave the United States except to go to a small clique of countries, time that the United States honor its own laws and treaties and Prosecute, the arguement of looking Forward is wrong, it isnt used for any other crime on US Statute books, could you imagine an arguement from Manson saying let me go I want to look forward, it would get laughed out of Court and the Parole System!
Doesn't work so well? Even the Nazi's figured that out and it didn't take ten years!
Another newsflash from the "no sh*t Sherlock corner"