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Title: Tortured Truth: What Cheney Learned from Stalin (Ideas) (Dick Cheney and Joseph Stalin)
Author : The American Conservative
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
Pages : * pages
Size : 55 KB

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WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT that Dick Cheney was a follower of French fashion? When he defends the routine use of torture as a means of warfare, however, theirs is the most recent example. The French, in the Algerian War, were the last Western army to systematize the use of torture on detainees. Alistair Horne describes the methods and consequences wonderfully well in his history A Savage War of Peace. They don't encourage imitation. In fact, the lesson of the Algerian War, and of the Bush government's experiment with the same sort of policies, is one that should be obvious and gratifying to any conservative: the traditional absolute ban on judicial torture is wiser than we can know.