I wrote earlier, that it takes a good man to think things through on his own and to admit errors.

It is easy to understand the rage after 9/11 that fueled so many such views. Someone like KSM truly is as evil a bit of scum to ever disgrace the planet with his presence.

Yet, for all the the proper reasons, vengeance born of anger is rarely good policy and doing what is known to be wrong for s “higher cause” rarely turns out to be better. I understand wanting someone like KSM to suffer, but it is foolish to think torturing him benefited anything other than a need to inflict pain in an act of vengeance. If it worked, civilized militaries would still do it rather than forbid it outright and call it a war crime.

Charles is a truly good man. There will be numerous wingnuts who wish to somehow nail him for writing something honest. It is a mark of how far from honor wingnuts are that they don’t recognize how much of a mensch Charles is for writing this.