Saturday, May 2, 2009

How The Times And Churchill Shaped Obama's Torture Policy

From Times Online:

When Barack Obama recruited Winston Churchill into the debate over CIA interrogation techniques, recalling that he never stooped to torture even in Britain’s darkest hour, something about his remarks struck me as oddly familiar.

In his press conference on Wednesday night, the President referred to “an article that I was reading the other day talking about the fact that the British during World War II, when London was being bombed to smithereens, had 200 or so detainees. And Churchill said, ‘We don’t torture’, when the entire British — all of the British people were being subjected to unimaginable risk and threat.”

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My Comment: A thought provoking commentary that provides an insight into the White House's mind on interrogation and the methods that should be adopted in the fight against our enemies. .

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