Perhaps nothing did more harm to our credibility and boost terrorist
recruitment during the early years of the Iraq war than the dangerous,
amoral
practice of rendition, secret detention, and interrogation by torture. We cannot go back to those practices if we value maintaining the
perception and the reality of the United States of America as a beacon
of justice, law, and human rights for the world. Make no mistake, this approach, like the immigration Executive order,
endangers American citizens and personnel abroad and is a boon to ISIS
and like-minded groups. It validates their propaganda, aids their
recruitment and incitement of homegrown terrorism in the United States
and the West, and encourages attacks against America abroad. General
Mattis gets it; why can't the President?
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