Wednesday, April 22, 2009

"We Have Ways of Making You Bolster Our Erroneous Preconceptions"

That's Matthew Yglesias's heading, perfectly capturing the case against torture based on foreign-policy realism (aside from the obvious moral argument against it).

1 comments:

Peter Hoh said...

Al Qaeda and its predecessor, the Muslim Brotherhood, have flourished under oppressive regimes which routinely use torture. That should provide a clue about torture's effectiveness.