I’m sorry to say, but torture per se is not evil. Torturing an innocent child or a harmless 80-year-old grandmother is evil. Torturing someone who has killed scores of innocents, is hellbent on killing scores of innocents, or has information on those who would kill scores of innocents isn’t evil, it’s a moral imperative. There’s nothing that we could do to this piece of shit that is beyond the pale. Nothing. Gouging his eyes out. Fine. Mutilating his genitals. No problem. Shoving an electric drill up his ass. I’m all for it. Moreover, I’d be the first to sign up to levy this type of punishment and wouldn’t feel like I was debasing myself at all.

Feeling holier than thou because we as a country profess horror at torturing terrorists is laughable (although I guarantee you no one that watches NASCAR or NFL football, i.e., the majority of Americans, would give a shit if we tortured the fuck out of these animals). We’re making ourselves marginally more vulnerable to becoming extinct by fighting with both hands tied behind our back, while our enemies put no such constraints on themselves, and then mock us for our weakness. Our enemies actually understand the concept of self-preservation when it comes to their culture, whereas we don’t. Meaning we’ve become “that guy,” you know, the one you can mock to his face without him knowing it. Which is to say, we’re fucking pathetic.