Release of Senate Torture Report
By using torture, we became the thugs our enemies say we are.
Ralph E. Stone Global News Centre
(SAN FRANCISCO) I applaud the release of the Senate Torture Report and urge those responsible be held accountable. The release of the Senate Torture Report reminds Americans that human torture is not only morally unacceptable – it is also a crime.
Unfortunately, too many Americans believe themselves superior to other countries and thus, anything we do to protect our country’s national interests, including torture, is somehow justifiable. Our use of torture places us in the same company as history’s infamous torturers. Waterboarding, for example, dates back to the Dark Ages. By using torture, we lose any ideological advantage we might have — the promotion of democracy, freedom, and human rights. By using torture, we became the thugs our enemies say we are.
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Global News Centre writer Ralph E. Stone was born in Massachusetts. He is a graduate of both Middlebury College and Suffolk Law School. We are very fortunate to have this writer’s talents in this troubling world; Ralph has an eye for detail that others miss. As is the case with many GlobalNewsCentre.com writers, Ralph is an American Veteran who served in war. Ralph served his nation after college as a U.S. Army officer during the Vietnam war. After Vietnam, he went on to have a career with the Federal Trade Commission as an Attorney specializing in Consumer and Antitrust Law. Over the years, Ralph has traveled extensively with his wife Judi, taking in data from all over the world, which today adds to his collective knowledge about extremely important subjects like the economy and taxation. You can send Ralph an email at this address [email protected]
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