December 23, 2004

Opinion:

The mirror goes black

    By Jack Grant

Torture.

We've used it.

The US government (in the form of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld) has authorized it.

Who are the "good guys" again?

Will America ever be able to look into the mirror again and say "we are the epitome of freedom and respect for human rights"?

Posted by Jack Grant at 03:05 on 23 December 2004
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Slate's Today's Papers offers a codicil:

TP has also noticed that the papers seem to making few distinctions about what appears to have been policy—such as using dogs to scare prisoners—and what went beyond what even that, such as shocking detainees. (If the point, or contention, is that the policies themselves muddied the waters, then the papers should say that.)

--|PW|--

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