When we go to war, our politicians will be guided by our popular will. And if we believe that torture 'got' bin Laden, then we will be more prone to accept the view that a good 'end' can justify brutal 'means.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Bush administration will go down in history as the Torture Team.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.
War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
'We don't torture' is the anguished cry of squishy people who have decided that trying to frighten terrorists by roughing them up is somehow the very definition of torture.
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
America does not torture. We never have, and we never will.
It is inhuman to continue a war which could easily be ended.
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
Even if torture works, what is the point of 'defending' America using a tactic that is a fundamental violation of what America ought to mean?