[lit-ideas] Re: The torture graph
- From: Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 01:03:01 EDT
In a message dated 4/6/2006 11:20:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
robert.paul@xxxxxxxx writes:
(Nobody's talking about 'fighting.' We've been talking about
the use of torture.) Granted that there are sociopaths and sadists and
just plain nuts in an large military force. Nobody's denying that. But
how can you now attribute some (unspecified) wrongdoing to 'a small
percentage' (who are disturbed in various ways) while claiming that the
sort of thing people have here been calling into question should be our
_policy_? This is a strange conflation.
Hi,
What troubles me is, as I have posted articles on this in the past, the
outsourcing of torture that our government is doing.
I would tend to trust (the majority of) our military to deal with extracting
information from those who have information which would save more lives
(and, indeed, there have been numerous accounts of our military and
intelligence
thwarting attacks which would have been horrific--see the account in
Pediatrics which discussed how to care for children if an attack occurred...as
there
had been capture of those who were going to engage in a terrorist attack on
Disneyland. This happened prior to 9-11---)
It's our government's administration which bothers me--for their lack of
accountability is almost frightening. To outsource to companies 'torture' is
horrific--for no accountability, no 'policing' of their own by the military
becomes necessary [if, in fact, the military is even involved...] ... the
military has people in it all over the world who are working to make those on
the
fringes accountable. That is taken out of the arena when this outsourcing
occurs...
Best,
Marlena in Missouri
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