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Absolutely. It has proven to be a vehicle for outrage and disgust. This is what we taught our students to understand that world disgust at any torture they would experience would lessen the torture as news filtered out. Those days may be over as a defense for our soldiers unless we turn around and renounce it at all levels and convince the world to believe us.

Mr. O'Donnell is correct that torture has provoked anger when used against the troops of a country that is a signatory to the Geneva conventions. Terrorists are not signatories nor are they recognized combatants. They kill the innocent, often in very gruesome ways; think Daniel Pearl. They have already tortured our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, thus if we use extreme forms of duress, which I am not necessarily recommending, it is unlikely to provoke any additional problems that we do not already have.