re: #152 shortshrift

Well done on the your healthcare question report.
As to your post on torture:
Which threatens the nation more: an enemy who despises democracy and the people within it, and who has yet to show any desire to emulate the example set by it, and who uses mass murder and torture as a norm of their warfare - or military interrogators going by the law get information on those mass murderers?
American leaders need to be more concerned with preserving the actual lives of Americans (and others) than in creating an image of righteousness. As a marketing ploy, we know in any case that righteousness translates to “weak horse.”

It threatens our basic society to abandon the rule of law.