Torture: The stain that doesn’t go away, and the effects it keeps having
Greg Mitchell has a good piece on a soldier who killed herself after being pressed to participate in torture as part of interrogations early in the Iraq war. The piece strikes me as credible. I do think that until there is a complete investigation of what was done in our names, in part by the ...
Greg Mitchell has a good piece on a soldier who killed herself after being pressed to participate in torture as part of interrogations early in the Iraq war. The piece strikes me as credible.
Greg Mitchell has a good piece on a soldier who killed herself after being pressed to participate in torture as part of interrogations early in the Iraq war. The piece strikes me as credible.
I do think that until there is a complete investigation of what was done in our names, in part by the military but mainly by civilians involved in intelligence, that the stain will be with us, mentally, politically and socially. We need a truth commission.
The above photo is taken from the burial service of Spc. Alyssa Peterson.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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