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Credibility Conundrums & Doldrums

Some new polls show that US credibility abroad is dismal. The Iraq fiasco, Guantanamo, kangaroo courts, renditions, secret prisons, and torture are collectively draining US credibility at a dizzying clip. The Iraq debacle alone is so damaging that any number of despots polluting the world will use it for justifying and defending their improper and inhumane behavior.

Here is one such example, where the Sudanese President calls into question evidence of genocide as nothing more than another example of UN/Powell-type theatrics cooked up by the US.

Restoring credibility will not be easy, especially in a world where the New York Times publishes articles like this one. Apparently, some intelligence experts rose to the occasion to criticize US interrogation techniques by characterizing them as harsh, outmoded, amateurish, and unreliable.

According to their claims, it seems that our interrogation techniques have not risen to the level of professionalism since WWII. So we are more than five years into the war on terror and we are still operating interrogations like Wednesday night karaoke.

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