The legacy of President George Bush is in the making. His ‘war on terror’ ad hominem seem to belong to another time, distant. But as the months and eventually years unfold, the secrets of his administration will come to light. As will all the associated horrors.
So Mark Danner writes in the New York Review of Books; the International Committee of the Red Cross has documented the treatment of the CIA’s 14 high value detainees. And yet when you read the techniques, the sensory deprivation, the beatings, the water-boarding, it all seems so common place.
Eight years of terror and the word torture falls flat, too numb to shock, too disturbing to truly understand and perceive. But in those cramped cells in those secret detention centers in Morocco, in Thailand, Afghanistan, Poland, Romania – the screams have not gone unheard and the blood will not be washed out.
Thousands of miles away, eyes and ears are still receptive to humanity and human rights.
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