James Risen - Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War (2014)

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The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

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To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.

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