{"id":9367,"date":"2005-12-04T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/12\/04\/what-we-have-become\/"},"modified":"2005-12-04T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2005-12-04T21:49:25","slug":"what-we-have-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/04\/what-we-have-become\/","title":{"rendered":"What we have become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to make things clear.  The United States now has a policy, referred to euphemistically as simply &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?050214fa_fact6\">rendition<\/a>,&#8221; of <a href=\"http:\/\/multigraphic.dk\/lounge\/wordpress\/?p=2366\">flying terror suspects to foreign countries<\/a> to torture them.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/04\/politics\/04cnd-policy.html?ex=1291352400&amp;en=2a900a246de45bef&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">aren&#8217;t sorry about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/12\/01\/torture-doesnt-work\/\">it doesn&#8217;t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the countries in which the torture is carried out are in Eastern Europe.  Indeed, we have adopted a great deal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lefarkins.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/scattered-ruins-of-lost-empire.html\">old apparatus of Soviet imperialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is often the case that the people being tortured are <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2005\/12\/oops_our_bad.html\">completely innocent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They picked up the wrong people, who had no information. In many, many cases there was only some vague association&#8221; with terrorism, one CIA officer said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was a time, not too long ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2005\/11\/universal_value.html\">we thought we had evolved beyond such behavior<\/a>.  Apparently not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to make things clear. The United States now has a policy, referred to euphemistically as simply &#8220;rendition,&#8221; of flying terror suspects to foreign countries to torture them. We aren&#8217;t sorry about it. Even though it doesn&#8217;t work. Many of the countries in which the torture is carried out are in Eastern Europe. Indeed, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}