Torture equals terror
Torture is terror. We must reject it: no ifs, no buts. In the words of General Lord Guthrie, former chief of defence staff and one of the members of Institute for Public Policy Research's independent commission on national security, "Torture does violence to the defenceless, using their bodies against their souls. It is illegal, unethical, counter-productive and dumb". We must recognise that its use in the ill-conceived "war on terror" is strategic folly. History reminds us that compromising our values in the hope of quick wins against terrorists is self-defeating. In counter-terrorism, short-cuts lead to long delays.
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