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very anti-imperialist left toward whom Ignatieff displays such hostility. See, for
example, Fred Halstead, Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the American Movement
Against the Vietnam War (New York: Monad Press, 1978).
38. Ignatieff, “I Am Iraq.”
39. See Peter Maass, “The Way of the Commandos,” New York Times Magazine, 1May
2005.
40. Amnesty International, El Salvador: Peace Can Only Be Achieved With Justice (2001).
While Amnesty does claim that leftist rebels committed human rights violations, it
assigns overwhelming responsibility for civilian murders to the Salvadoran army and
its associated death squads, the very groups supported by the U.S. state.
41. See Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins: Guns, Greed and Globalization (New
York: Orbis Books, 2001), pp. 27, 11; and Leslie Gill, The School of the Americas:
Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas (Durham: Duke University
Press, 2004), p. 137. In the face of mounting opposition, the SOA has recently changed
its name to the Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation.
42. Nelson-Pallmeyer, School of Assassins, pp. 9–10.
43. Gary Cohn and Ginger Thompson, “Unearthed: Fatal Secrets,” Baltimore Sun, 11 June
1995, available online at www.geocities.com/ravencrazy/baltimoresun.html.
44. Tim Golden, “In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates’ Deaths,” New York
Times, 20 May 2005.
45. Tim Golden, “Abuse Inquiry Bogged Down in Afghanistan,” New York Times, 22May
2005.
46. See James Hodge and Linda Cooper, “Roots of Abu Ghraib in C.I.A. techniques,”
National Catholic Reporter, 5 November 2004, p. 12.
47. For revelations of U.S. executions of Iraqi civilians see Doug Struck, “Former Marine
Testifies to Atrocities in Iraq,” Washington Post, 8 December 2004.
48. Mark Danner, “The Logic of Torture,” in Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (Berkeley:
North Atlantic Books, 2004), p. 27.
49. As noted by Danner as well as Hodge and Cooper. A newer U.S. inquiry has also
documented widespread abuse at the American prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. See
Neil A. Lewis and Eric Schmitt, “Inquiry Finds Abuses at Guantanamo Bay,” New York
Times, 1 May 2005.
50. “Top Soldier in Iraq Okayed Illegal Methods, A.C.L.U. says,” Globe and Mail
(Toronto), 30 March 2005.
51. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1985), p. 57.
52. Ignatieff, “Second, Sober Thoughts.”
53. Ignatieff, Lesser Evil, p. 138.
54. See Adam Hochschild, “What’s in a Word? Torture,” New York Times, 23 May 2004.
55. Ignatieff does take his distance from “psychological abuse,” but this seems inconsistent
as his criterion for torture appears to be “physical duress or cruelty.” See ibid.