[lit-ideas] Re: Is torture wrong by definition?
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 09:30:20 -0700
Instead of definitions of torture, look at its consequences.
The US now has several thousand CIA and military persons who have learned how to torture.
What happens with those people after Iraq? Where will they go? Back to work as a manager at
Pizza Hut?
They're like the military mercenaries: a large pool of men who live in a world without laws,
who kill for pay. If they come back to the USA, we'll have people here who know how to
torture and run death squads.
What are the consequences of that?
This isn't just speculation.
Back in the 80s, the CIA funded and trained a large group of mercenaries to fight a guerilla
war. Those mercenaries fought viciously and they won. The CIA lost interest and walked away.
But the mercenaries continued their war. They called themselves The Base. You know what
happened next.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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