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By LAWRENCE SWAIM, Columnist
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Torture is a demonic outbreak of radical evil at the heart of the social contract between the individual and the state. In our time, it is usually the product of religious hatred, and is typically supported by people who believe in religious war. It shouldn’t surprise us, then, that those who torture would attempt to destroy a person’s relationship with God. But it should disturb all Americans that interrogators at the Navel base at Guantanamo Bay are alleged to practice such obscene forms of so-called "enhanced interrogation." |
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