After visiting twenty-five or so U.S. prisons, the International Committee of the Red Cross reported registering 107 detainees under eighteen, some as young as eight years old. The journalist Seymour Hersh reported in May 2005 that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had received a report that there were "800-900 Pakistani boys 13-15 years of age in custody." The International Red Cross, Amnesty International, and the Pentagon have gathered substantial testimony of torture of children, confirms by soldiers who witnessed or participated in the abuse.

The words above appear on page 119 of the hardcover edition of Our Endangered Values, the new book by Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States.

This is being done in my name. And in yours. I feel sick.