When Torture Is The Only Option...
Senator John McCain is working hard to get the Geneva Convention ban on mistreating prisoners made into U.S. law. The bill, which bans cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment, passed the Senate 90 to 9, and is gaining momentum. But President Bush says he will veto the bill unless the CIA is exempt. Cheney is leading the campaign for the exemption, but it is hard to find pro-torture politicians around Washington D.C.
Most people naively go along with the bill, believing that a position against torture seems to be obviously the better position. Most human beings recoil from lowering themselves by torturing a person, criminal or not, and Americans believing that it degrades the American name. A criminal may deserve to be tortured; but, we refuse to torture him, nonetheless, because Americans don't stoop to revenge, even if it is labeled as justice.
But what if torturing a criminal (or using some other form of rough interrogation) is the only way to save innocent lives, and not......
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