The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around t…

- Mark Danner

Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body…

- Mark Danner

What is evil? What is - where does the evil come from that lies behind someone like Saddam Hussein, or Radovan Karadzic, or General Claude Raymond in…

- Mark Danner

How do you have a democratic empire, how do you have an imperial foreign policy built on a democracy polity. It's like some sort of strange mythical …

- Mark Danner

I would not like to be in President Obama's position in making choices on Afghanistan.

- Mark Danner

One is the goals of 9/11 itself, of that attack was to draw the United States into Afghanistan to fight a counterinsurgency as the Soviets had done b…

- Mark Danner

I think if you're looking for a pure expression of evil, torture is pretty - is a pretty good candidate.

- Mark Danner

I think that the first point to be made is there is no "solution" in Afghanistan. Solution I put in quotes. We live in an op-ed culture, which is to …

- Mark Danner