Status Updates From Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary ...

Really liking this so far because this book was pre-war on terror, and every justification and step on the road to torture are things America did later. Maybe if someone in the Pentagon had read this book, he’d have realized none of that would end well.

(Also I can’t read even one of these research books without walking away having added more to my to-read—gotta read his source for the Battle of Algiers next.)

"I confess also that some part of me hopes that the men I have interviewed are not representative of the whole, because for some of these men I have a certain respect. Whatever their misdeeds, and they are awful, I cannot shake the impression that some have shown a certain honor since committing them. Thousands more have done worse, and never speak a word of it...And I must confess that in a few I could see myself."