[lbo-talk] Americans sorta like torture if it works

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 13:29:57 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Dick Cheney’s pushback on torture this week is well-calibrated: It’s an
> issue on which public sentiment is somewhat more equivocal than President
> Obama’s own view. While most people oppose torture, that view is short of
> monolithic – and opposition softens if it’s presumed actually to work, as
> the former vice president argues.
>
> This has been the case for years: Ask people if they support or oppose the
> use of torture, a straight up or down question, and majorities oppose it

.. and those whom do it only "obey orders"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

FC



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