There is a titanic distinction to be made between torture as practiced by the terrorists and torture…NO: COERCION – as practiced by the interrogators charged with the SAFETY of the U.S.

That is simply that the terrorists use torture primarily as an expression of their hatred, contempt, and desire to humiliate the unbeliever; the victim; the object of their hatred. What we have seen is pure Xenophobic sadism played out with the justification of religious dogma. It is the same impulse as the Iranian government’s hired Basij sniper’s murder of a young girl standing at the sidelines of a clearly peaceful protest. (The Basij-e Mostaz’afin enforcer-thugs are described by the Iranian protesters as almost exclusively foreign fanatics imported and employed by the Iranian Mullahs to suppress dissent.)

Without pretending that our side is completely above those feelings, the point of our coercive techniques is to obtain information despite the resistance of the subject being coerced, so as to protect innocents from harm.

The Left in this culture pretend this is no distinction, just as they perversely equate any inconvenience or discomfort whatsoever with the terrorists’ murders, maiming, beheading, incineration, dismemberment, stoning, et cetera.

Used as a tactic of dialectical argument, that sort of intentional destruction and gutting of logic is diagnostic of a criminal, outlaw mentality.

When it appears in a whiny liberal poop-head’s claim that using coercive interrogation proves “we are no better than the terrorists,” it is diagnostic of either utter stupidity or willful self-delusion.

All of those argue that the Left need to be disbarred from any position of responsibility for the lives of other beings.