The Pakistani Spectator

Read the article “America’s Shame” by Eric Margolis.

Nations that use torture disgrace themselves. Armed forces and police that torture inevitably become brutalized and corrupted. “Limited” use of torture quickly becomes generalized. “Information” obtained by torture is mostly unreliable.

And the American government claims that they are extracting useful information via torture.

CIA “useful” torture information came from two suspects: Khalid Sheik Mohammed was tortured by near drowning 183 times – six times daily for a month; and Abu Zubaydah, 83 times in August, 2003.

Use a power drill (a favorite “investigative” tool of America’s Iraqi Shia allies) on Dick Cheney, and it would take only minutes to get him to admit he’s Osama bin Laden.

Obviously, these torture techniques are learned and carried over from a variety of source including Nazis,Russia and Israeli government.

The CIA and US military copied these North Korean/Soviet torture methods, but also added contorted positions, and nakedness and humiliation, techniques learned from Israeli interrogators who used them to blackmail Palestinian prisoners into becoming informers. Hence all the naked photos from Abu Ghraib prison.

It is very hypocritical of the States to consider itself the liberator of the Iraqis while torturing and murdering millions of Iraqis. Unilateral foreign policies will take them nowhere. In fact, unilateral foreign policies will eventually lead to the end of this world. And we all know that, don’t we.