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Shame on the News & Record for the headline you placed on the Thomas Sowell column, "U. S. must not be squeamish about torture" (Sept. 21). Nowhere in his column did Sowell use the word "torture."

There is a legitimate debate on what means we can use to interrogate prisoners who do not fall under the Geneva Conventions, i.e., who do not wear uniforms and are not the soldiers of any country. There is a case to be made that terrorists will torture prisoners regardless of what we do.

There is likewise a case for the United States rising above the conduct of terrorists. There is a case that if a terrorist knows an atomic weapon is about to be detonated in a major U.S. city, we must do to one person whatever it takes to get that information in order to save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Sowell is not arguing for torture. Your headline inflames and causes some, if not many, to turn away from his column and the legitimate debate. Your bias is showing, and in this case it does a disservice to your readers. Shame on you.

Pete L. Little
Greensboro