“I worry that a serious assault on the ballot box is coming” ©Teenbull, Mega/Pixel, Claire McAdams/Rex Shutterstock, Means/Getty Images
A few days after 9/11, one of my more excitable friends said: “very soon, we’ll be discussing whether we can justify torture.” I put it down to one war film too many. But before long, it turned out he was right. The CIA asked George W Bush about “enhanced interrogation techniques,” and he replied “damn right.” Before long we had all heard about waterboarding, or tormento del agua—as the Spanish Inquisition had called it. A handful of suicidal fanatics on four aeroplanes …read more
Source: Prospect
