The US Government and Honesty

I, like so many of you, have been extremely disgusted by many of the actions of people that represent the United States: the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, consciously sacrificing the best interests of posterity for economic gain, lying under oath, and now this...The recent allegations of "secret prisons" being run by the CIA for torture are troubling to me. Of course, I never support the killing of innocent civilians, which is what terrorism is. I respect and support people who dedicate their lives to combating terrorism. However, torture is crossing the line, and I don't think the United States should be engaging in any sort of torture...Hopefully these allegations are false.

Is torture ever okay? For example, if there is a person who knows where a nuclear bomb set to explode is in Miami, would you torture them to find out where it is? I mean, you might be quick to say yes...But what if that person actually did not know where it is? What if you tortured them and that only made them stronger in the resolve to allow it to explode? I think there are much better ways to combat terrorism than torture...

Why then has the United States not come out and denied these allegations about secret prisons? Maybe it's because they don't even care to grace the accusers with an answer, but that doesn't make sense since one of the many questioning the US right now is the UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw! The United States really needs to answer these allegations. Unfortunately for the US Government, its record of honesty is not a strong one, and even if they say "No" to these allegations...A lot of people will doubt that that is the truth.

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