The U.s.-European Torture Dispute: An Autopsy

As Pres Bush begins the sixth year of his presidency, he has been lamed if not crippled by international condemnation of suspected torture of detainees in US custody. Media outrage over reports of "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects dogged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at every stop of her pre-Christmas European tour. Here, Hodgson discusses how the relationship between the US and Europe has been changed, for the worse, by three historic events: "9/11," "11/9," and the way in which the Iraq war was started and conducted by the Bush administration and its "coalition of the willing" among European allies.