The Torture Debate

Mark Shea of Catholic And Enjoying It often posts about his opposition to interrogation procedures approved by the Bush administration for terrorist suspects. I tend to agree with him. We claim the right to go to war using the just war doctrine or a secular variant of the same, but if we don't use moral tactics to fight the way, are we really any better than our enemy?

This Smoking Gun article details some of the Al-Qaeda torture tactics from a recently recovered manual. The manual was found in a raid in Iraq along with Al-Qaeda prisoners. Be careful clicking the link, there are graphic images. This is what we must not become.