Torture works…badly?
Shrubya’s architects of torture and other reactionaries are falling over themselves in the rush to justify coercive interrogation based on the link between the recent successful destruction of Bin Laden and the name of Osama’s courier given during a standard interrogation session.
The article is interesting, but Peartree3′s comment really caught my eye:
“What does it say about the character of a person who WANTS to believe that torture works?”
Tags: torture
May 10th, 2011 at 6:05 am
I honestly don’t know if this characterization is on the mark for everyone who advocates torture, but I associate folks who do so with habitually frightened, petty, emotionally weak people. Yet, I don’t have any evidence beyond the anecdotal: The very few folks I know who advocate torture all more or less fit that bill.