I'm not sure I can put my revulsion into words. The incredibly bald, vile, hypocrisy of America using torture is just so overwhelming, I can't marshall an argument. How can we rail against an "axis of evil" from one side of our mouths and then advocate torture out of the other?
On the other hand, Mr. Dershowitz is right that we certainly have allies that practice torture. Israel does and I believe France may (don't know for sure). So now we've been hoisted on our own petard, I guess. It's a complex question, and I'm not sure I have an answer. But I do agree with Robert Steele, a former CIA agent, that "torture is a cancer that does more damage to the interrogator and his cause than to the victim".
