Next stop, Room 101.
It came out yesterday that two suspected Al Qaeda operatives held in US custody died from "blunt force injuries" during interrogations. Even if these wounds were perpetrated before their capture (which is a big if), it's utterly dismaying to read where the line is being drawn by our government between "stress and duress" and out-and-out torture. Equally stomach-turning is that we apparently subcontract out the tough nuts to crack to those nations even less perturbed by the ethics of torture than we are. What have we become?
I am from Canada and there is quite a lot we do not hear about the "war on terrorism". This torture and murder of Al Qaeda suspects sets a terrifying precident for foriegn diplomacy.