Why would anybody be amazed at American torture when hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, mutilated and murdered ? “As Americans we are inclined to be a bit insular”, writes Joan Chittister. “We see ourselves as the centre of the globe, the biggest, the best, the latest, the smartest, the most advanced, the most powerful, the most right, the paragon of all paragons in all things.”
This much-travelled and deeply-anchored Benedictine is free enough and American enough to criticize the appalling misadventures of the current American administration and the most incompetent president in living memory.
This much-travelled and deeply-anchored Benedictine is free enough and American enough to criticize the appalling misadventures of the current American administration and the most incompetent president in living memory.
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