Ethics

Reagan's Convention Against Torture

By Ed Brayton

Andrew Sullivan notes just how far the right has fallen since the days of their constantly-evoked hero, Ronald Reagan. Reagan fought for the passage of the U.N. Convention on Torture and made the U.S. a signatory to it in 1984. And not only did he push for each country to prosecute anyone in their leadership that engages in torture, he specifically called for the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute leaders in other countries who do so. Here's what he said when he signed the treaty:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 27, 2009 (boomark / email).