by Patrick J. Buchanan – March 10, 2003
Can torture – the infliction of intolerable, even excruciating, pain to extract information from war criminals – ever be justified?
Civilized society has answered in the negative. No, never. And torture is everywhere outlawed. Regimes that resort to it deny it, lest they be judged barbarous. Routine torture marks the regime that uses it as unworthy of rule or even respect. And rightly so.
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