The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Death of a general

ALGÉRIE Paul Aussaresses, le bourreau, est mort

Le général Aussaresses est décédé, le 3 décembre, sans avoir jamais exprimé aucun regret quant à son passé de tortionnaire durant la guerre d'Algérie, déplore le quotidien.

I read his book in the original French.

No, far from having regrets, he thought we Americans ought to use such methods in our GWOT.
Unlike the French, we let others do our dirty-work.

Think rendition.

He was nowhere near as bad as the FLN terrorists whose torture he directed, of course.

Needless to say, this patriotic and anti-colonialist Algerian paper doesn't see it that way.

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