Pathetic

In the midst of defending once again the single worst argument in the pro-torture arsenal, Alan Dershowitz has finally been reduced to a sad parody of himself by claiming that torture — if good enough for the Nazis — is good enough for us.

There are some who claim that torture is a nonissue because it never works–it only produces false information. This is simply not true, as evidenced by the many decent members of the French Resistance who, under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives.

I’m not even sure there’s an appropriate response to this, except to congratulate Dershowitz for finding virtue in a program of torture that — while it may have helped extract information (useful or not) from some of its victims — failed to accomplish the objectives of those who administered it. Crackerjack analysis, Dershowitz. Cracker-fucking-jack.