Re the blizzard of torture-related documents in the news in the last few days, Andrew Sullivan offers the essential commentary (even while on leave):
Understanding the current right’s embrace of total state power against the individual takes time to absorb. But liberal democracy has no more dangerous enemies than these.
And I’d add that the same people ranting and raving lately about President Obama’s supposed Hitlerism — his unquenchable desire to oppress ordinary Americans with evil health care! — are the very ones who will defend to the nth degree our government’s right to torture at will and with impunity. The mind reels.
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