Torture is the new state religion. The arguments between
those who find torture effective and those who find it ineffective are like the
arguments between Catholics and Protestants in the seventeenth century,
articulated with great passion and earnestness, but totally besides the point.
Underlying the actual conflicts and debates is nothing more than a raw grab for
power, as the U.S. seeks greater instruments of repression at home and abroad
in the name of securing the world for U.S. plunder for the greater good of a
small clique of corporations and a coterie of military men, academics, and
spies that keep the wheels of the machine well-oiled and ready to strike...
