Torture

There's a good article at truthout on Bush's speech about the secret CIA prisons and torture. There are moral questions about torture, there are ethical questions about even going near to torture and threats, there are legal questions with us being signatory to several treates such as the Geneva Accords and then the question of whether torture even works. If we are to be a light to the nations, then we need to not only avoid torture but the appearance of condoning torture. It seems this administration thinks rhetoric will serve as a shield. At best the rhetoric is a shield of tissue paper.