[A-List] Justifiable torture

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The arguement has been made that torture sometimes does provide 
critically useful information that saves lives.
Those who make this arguement need to ask whether any useful information 
were extracted from the victims of torture whose photographs the world 
has senn in recent days.  The military is silent on that information, 
preferring to let the force abstract rationale carry the day.  Since 
between 70-90% of the prisoners were admittedly wrongly detained, that 
they were in fact innocent civilians caught up in a net of feeding 
frenzy,that they could not possibly have any information that would be 
remotely of interest to military intelligence,  torture then serves no 
purpose except to dehumanize a alien population.

Henry C.K. Liu