Let’s Talk Torture

This is a subject that most of us tend to avoid. However, the reaction of a society to torture tells us a lot about that society. After the events in Abu Graib came out, Americans, not everyone, but more than a few, were horrified.

Chiefly, there were both army investigations and a US Senate investigation. We can all speak about how that was done. Or how low cogs in the machine paid most of the price. But in general, the public reacted as Democratic societies do. We recoiled in horror. Yes, the pictures of that infamy will live in horror. It also broke a pattern in the long-standing treatment of…