Letters to the Editor
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What Do We Believe In?
Having just read Judith Mayer's New Yorker article about the American torture policy as run by the C.I. A., and seen Charles Ferguson's new documentary No End In Sight leads me to the inescapable conclusion that the American management of Iraq after the invasion, and our torture polices are both dismal failures and inhumane as well.
When Mike McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, says that he wouldn't want any U. S. citizen to go through what we do to others, I am convinced that we have lost our way. No longer can we say that our policies and values should be respected and emulated. We have become a laughingstock. What a legacy.
For a group such as the APA, which claims, I am sure, to be interested in the well being of all people to fail to come out with a wholesale condemnation of our torture policies would be a deep and bitter disappointment.
It certainly shows how far we have fallen from having good and decent values if we can't declare just how heinous these torture practices are. And if we can't depend on our most respected institutions to speak up for what is right we have sunk pretty low.