I'd rather go snowboarding than waterboarding...

Here, Charles Krauthammer attempts to justify American use of torture in the war on Islamic terrorism.

Here, Andrew Sullivan writes how doing so would be the beginning of totalitarianism in this nation, and the death knell for American freedom.

Sullivan is right, and Krauthammer is dangerously foolishly wrong. We can only hope that the country agrees with Sullivan and presses forward with efforts to ban torture utterly and forever.

Note:
The Weekly Standard, pro-torture. The New Republic, anti-torture. Can it be accurate to describe media outlets as being "good" and "evil"?

Quote:
In International Consequences the players must reckon to reap what they've sown.
We have a defence against other defences, but what's to defend us against our own?
- Piet Heyn