[Preechr]

Are the media lazier than ever? yes...

Are we more than ever likely, policy wise, to embrace torture? sure...

#2 first: Thanks to the myriad attacks on anything that might give an advantage to America, pretty much anything a keeper might do to the kept can be classified as torture since the 70s. Reread your article with that in mind and it's not so outrageous. There's a reason throw in those bits about cigarettes and whatnot, and dare I point out the specifics aren't so credible sounding once stood up independently and looked upon incredulously?

There's a perfectly good and wholesome method for endorsing the use of torture up a point. If I've got your wife strapped to a time-bomb somewhere, I'm hoping you'd be willing to beat me up a bit to find out some details on the situation. As a society supposed to based in reason and morality, we should have defined the grey areas of such situations before now, but we've failed in that regard. What's needed is for folks to sit down and make some sensible guidelines for what and what is not past the line for what one might do to another in the search for information vital for the salvation of many innocent lives.

And, Kelly, yes, the major media stinks. There's a perfectly good alternative located in a window right there on your computer that's yet to be opened. I hope you will find a way to do so, because you seem very bright and willing to be treated honestly.

Here's the problem: You just have yet to figure out that if you want to know the real truth, it's up to you to find it.