Torture

Belmont Club has a very good post on torture up. There are obvious similarities between this issue and the detention without trial issue I wrote on yesterday. Read the whole thing. His final thoughts are very worth pondering:

Just as the torturer who claims that he serves a higher cause stands on false ground so too must the man who advocates gentleness with terrorists accept that the pursuit of his moral good will often be bought by the suffering of children. On every battlefield men have tried to strike a balance between saving their lives and saving themselves; and the choice though hard is before us.