Torturing Us
Jared Allen
Bush and Cheney tortured. Their Republican party shares the political consequences. Many Americans think about only their own country's safety. They would accept torture's illegality and immorality if it protected America. So one Republican tactic is to defend torture on these grounds.
Congress held secret hearings to discover truths about interrogation methods and their efficacy. Republicans then gave on-the-record interviews with The Hill describing how torture obtained information. They abused the hearing's confidentiality to promote their torture defense.
[American psychology grounds the "torture works" argument's efficacy. I suspect this cause: many Americans are not curious about the world outside their country. Indeed there are threats. But their origins are unknown and misunderstood. So many do not know the threat's realistic bounds and characteristics. For all we know, terrorists can do just about anything to us. So our response is to do just about anything to them, even if that means breaking laws and morals to do so.]
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