Volume 54, Number 16 · October 25, 2007
Is This Torture Necessary?
By Jeremy Waldron
Less Safe, Less Free: Why America Is Losing the War on Terror
by David Cole and Jules Lobel
New Press, 326 pp., $26.95
How much liberty should we be willing to give up in order to make ourselves safe from terrorist attack? Few deny that some trade-off is necessary. The terrorists who attacked New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, took advantage of the liberties we enjoy and some of those liberties need to be curtailed if other terrorists, following their example, are not also to take advantage of them with similar or even more terrible results.
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