Neocons and Torture

Unfortunately, the defense being mounted by Bush, Rice and the rest of the neo-conservative crowd is that torture was effective. The effectiveness of a tactic has nothing to do with the legality.

As many people have pointed out, the waterboard used by Pol Pot is on display in the genocide museum in Cambodia. It should not take that type of reminder to remember that torture is bad and against the American and Human ideals.

The only way to prevent torture and preserve human rights in the future is to bring people who authorize torture to justice. Obama very cleverly has exempted the perpetrators from this because as the Milgram experiment showed, they were just following orders.

If there are international or domestic criminal charges levied against the people who authorized torture then Neo-conservatism, and perhaps conservatism, will be haunted forever.