Politics

The Media's Pro-Torture Cheerleaders

BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS

The American people didn’t demand that we torture detainees and embark on permanent war after 9/11. Our politicians and pundits did.

Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Purdy
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Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy

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