The giver of life

We might not like it, we might not condone it, but it’s being done in our name. We give it euphemistic names like ‘waterboarding’ so we don’t have to think about what is really going on. It is a mock execution. It is torture. It is part of our ‘Western values’. Where does it fit in the war on terror’s manichean struggle of good against evil?

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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 at 9:25 am

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