Why We Can’t Give It Up:   Torture had become ‘as extinct as cannibalism’ in post-Enlightenment Europe. So why has it come roaring back in the last century? (via Historynet)

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• Is Torture Ever Acceptable? (socyberty.com)
• Obama bans war criminals, except our own [I think there may be more to this than meets the eye.] (jhaines6.wordpress.com)