Torture Tourism: Welcome to Cambodia

November 30th, 2005 | By Joshua | 2 Comments »

In the darkness of our Bangkok hotel lobby at 4 a.m., as our taxi driver takes away our bags, I spy a tattered copy of Harper’s magazine (November, 2005), which I snatch with delight (a seemingly random event, since the only American magazines I’ve seen in six months were sent in a care package back in August). On the plane to Phnom Penh, I read an essay by William Pfaff, entitled “What We’ve Lost: George W. Bush and the price of torture.”
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