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In reply to the discussion: NYT Op-ed: Pardon Bush and Those Who Tortured [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)another nation because of the limits US law places on US government with regard to torture. Otherwise, we could have "interrogated" them here. You can call it interrogation all you want. We flew them from here to another to be tortured. So, I am not sure what your example has do with extraordinary rendition.
Besides, the US found ways not to give alleged terrorists the benefit of US law. You know that. Besides, you can turn over a prison to a foreign nation without asking that nation to torture him or her.
And torture is torture, regardless of the efforts of the US Executive Branch to evade US law. The morality does not change because we ask Assad to do it for us. Or send our prisoners to a black hole we control, like Bagram. Or put a prisoner on a US naval ship to be tortured. Geography has nothing to do with morality. Neither does having someone else do your dirty work because you're trying to protect yourself. Indeed, the latter is more immoral.