Friday, February 22, 2008

Visiting the Torture Museum

Barbarism Then and Now

by Karen J. Greenberg
(Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law)

".....Someday, our children may travel to Washington and somewhere near the Smithsonian and the Holocaust Museum, perhaps they, like the Czechs and other Europeans, will be able to visit their own official torture museum. There, a step from the Potomac River, they will be able to view strange instruments for inflicting pain and perhaps even watch horrifying videos of torture happening. And they may wonder how we ever faltered so miserably when it came to a war that was supposed to be on terror, but ended up adopting the worst traditions of terror in the Age of Barbarism Lite."

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