This is torture's true purpose: to terrorise - not only the people in
  Guantánamo's cages and Syria's isolation cells but also, and
  more importantly, the broader community that hears about these
  abuses. Torture is a machine designed to break the will to resist
  - the individual prisoner's will and the collective will. 

  ...

  And yet the abuses keep on coming - Uzbekistan as the new
  hotspot for renditions; the "El Salvador model" imported to Iraq.
  And the only sensible explanation for torture's persistent
  popularity comes from a most unlikely source. Lynndie England,
  the fall girl for Abu Ghraib, was asked during her botched trial
  why she and her colleagues had forced naked prisoners into a
  human pyramid. "As a way to control them," she replied. 

  Exactly. As an interrogation tool, torture is a bust. But when it
  comes to social control, nothing works quite like torture. 

  Naomi Klein
  Saturday May 14, 2005
  The Guardian 

  · A version of this article is published in The Nation 

  www.thenation.com

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1483893,00.html

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