Our Nation Unhinged: The Human Consequences of the War on Terror

Jose Padilla short—shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen—year—old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, "Kill me!" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force—fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the...