Human life is easily ended by those who are the strongest

To The Daily Sun,

Recently the CIA disclosed that it had killed 100 prisoners by torture. The number may be an abstract figure, it could very well be a lot higher.

In admitting to this heinous crime, the CIA is well aware that every International War Crimes Court (in which we are a signee) has ruled that killing prisoners is an act of murder. United States military has demonstrated, in a decade of war (undeclared) total disregard to what the rest of the industrial world has judged as criminal. We do as we please and the rest of the world can be damned. We rationalize our warped claim to morality by the misconception that it is acceptable considering the fanaticism of the enemy we face. This bizarre concept is totally erroneous — but many people accept it without question.

The crime should be fully disclosed to the public. How did these prisoners die We should know the specifics.How many were starved to death, electrocuted? How many were water-boarded to death (drowned.) How many bled to death by repeated stabbings? How many hung on a cross and died of suffocation as Jesus did? Were they attacked by crazed dogs?

Is this the country I grew up with? Are the torturers men I once admired? The worst thing that comes out of all of this is: human life is easily ended by those who are the strongest, and have widespread support. Our nation has given their silent consent to brutality and systematic murder with hardly a word of protest. God help us to see our hatred and inhumanity is entirely outside of what many call patriotism.

Leon R. Albushies

Gilford