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[QUOTE]Originally posted by bX: [QB] The point is that torture is torture, no matter who is doing it. And if we say it's OK because its our guys doing it to fight terror or maintain peace or whatever it is we're trying to do wherever it is this week, then right there we've established that violating a persons human rights is an effective and even in some cases justified means of obtaining what you want. We don't get to have it both ways. I think the problem is that if the US decides that we're the sort of state who will perpetrate this sort of thing to fight terror, then we've crossed a line. Even if we've done so with the best intentions. We become (even more than we already were) the embodiment of what the terrorists or insurgents (or democrats or whatever we're calling them today) are fighting against. And a lesson maybe we could learn from them is that when you spend too much time fighting [i]against[/i] something, sometimes you lose sight of what it is you're fighting [i]for[/i]. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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