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Originally Posted by Chewy

No, torture is never acceptable, once a country decides to torture someone, its set itself off on a dark path. See American and the UK post-9/11.

Spot on!
Us and very much more so the Americans don't have right on our side any more. Once you start coming up with ways to avoid having to uphold human rights treaties that you have clearly signed up to then you're *****ed and have no grounds to complain when someone wants to do appalling things to you.
The things that have been done by the US and to a lesser extent the British in Iraq and Afghanistan to people (very often completely innocent people) supposedly in the name of peace and freedom (as if!) are beyond disgusting and totally reprehensible.

What what goes around comes around. You can't do terrible things to people and not expect it to come back around to you!