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As friends with a commitment to integrity, we call on the United States to honor its treaty obligations to the 1949 Geneva Conventions, their 1977 protocols, and the UN Conventional against Torture. Not honoring these agreements endangers our own soldiers and civil society itself.

William Penn once said, "A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it."

We find torture to be an evil, and we call on our country to abolish its use of torture now, that we may be a nation which leads with light and integrity.

Jonathan Anderson

Juneau