Why a War Crimes Trial Is Necessary


Follow this link to yet another letter to the editor that  the Worcester Telegram & Gazette has published in support of torture.

In the comments section on the letter, I wrote the following response:

It is becoming apparent to me that no simple discussion of the facts will convince these torture apologists that their position is unsupportable.

The only way that these people will be convinced that they are on the losing side of this argument is to bring the authors of this illegal and immoral policy to trial in a court of law. When they are convicted of war crimes, then everyone will know that no matter what your personal belief is about torture, the civilized world holds it to be a crime of the highest order.

If we cannot convince people that torture is wrong, we can at least convince them that they will be tried, convicted, and punished for it.

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