I was glad to see this article. However, I do take issue with the idea that the U.S. was ever a "beacon of human rights." It is a common myth, so pervasive, and so off the mark. We can trace "modern" U.S. use of torture to at least 1902 with the "water cure" inflicted upon people in the Philippines. Then, of course, we have the U.S.'s nefarious past in helping overthrow governments that we did not agree with and putting in place governments that we did agree with - often times training their torturers and helping out in the torture chambers. …
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