Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Good Point

Anne Applebaum, from a WaPo op-ed about the damage done to American credibility by its treatment of GWOT detainees:

This is concrete proof, as if more were needed, that it is not merely immoral to operate outside the rule of law; it is also ineffective and in fact profoundly counterproductive: There is no proof that it produces better information but plenty of evidence that it has discredited the United States. Indeed, there could be no more eloquent condemnation of the Bush administration's torture and detention policies than the deafening silence that followed [Khalid Sheikh] Mohammed's confession: Who could have imagined, in September of 2001, that one of the deadliest terrorists in history would admit to the destruction of the World Trade Center -- and that the world would shrug its shoulders?

Posted by Judah in:  Global War On Terror   Human Rights   

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