On Torture and Being 'Good Americans'
Fred Branfman: Every generation or so an evil arises which is so monstrous, so degrading to the human spirit, so morally bankrupt that even to debate it is a sign of moral corruption. Today, torture, a practice far more degrading to us than to our victims, represents such an evil. The real question for us, however, is what this says not about President Bush and our other leaders, but about ourselves. What are we, as citizens, as human beings, willing to live with? Are we willing to live with a president, vice-president, secretary of defense, secretary of state, and attorney-general who either engage in or rationalize torture in our names, even as they shamelessly deny they are doing so?
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030306C.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030306C.shtml
rudkla - 3. Mär, 23:06
