As Americans we recoil at the idea of torture. The very word summons our darkest fear and dread of some dank communist cell or a room with insanely primitive devices of pain like in that scene of the torture chamber in Herzog’s "Lessons of Darkness".
As Americans, we recoil at the very idea of pardoning torture, for we innately understand that any acceptance of this cancer of torture will open the body of society up to an inevitable metastasizing that will surely kill all that is good and right in this country
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