If you're really against torture...

[Undertoad]

Then they would have to place sanctions on most nations on Earth, including the United States.

The US is morally identical to Syria and all torture is morally identical, whether the victim is the planner of 9/11 or, you know, some kid off the street. Whether the information sought is to prevent catastrophic attack, or just having fun in a dungeon in Damascus, it's really all the same.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...REH_story.html

The boy’s head was swollen, purple and disfigured. His body was a mess of welts, cigarette burns and wounds from bullets fired to injure, not kill. His kneecaps had been smashed, his neck broken, his jaw shattered and his penis cut off.

What finally killed him was not clear, but it appeared painfully, shockingly clear that he had suffered terribly during the month he spent in Syrian custody.

Hamza Ali al-Khateeb was 13 years old.

In fact the young al-Khateeb, nearing the end of his life, would not want to trade places with anyone in Guantanamo or even with KSM being waterboarded in a CIA hideout in Algeria. Because all torture is identically, morally barbaric. It's all the same.

Which is why nothing will be done. We must look the other way; we must turn inwards; we are just as bad. Our shame will fill the history books. We must immediately repent on behalf of young Hamza. If we can admit responsibility we can begin changing ourselves, and then Syria will have no other path except to change as well. Once they see the beauty of the West's non-torturing approach they will certainly and wholly change.

I see it now, and I will pray for repentance at nightfall if the local cops don't cut my dick off first.