I had a great post all worked up about torture, but then Firefox crashed on me and all was lost. Unfortunately I don’t have time today to rewrite, so I’ll give you the five-second summary:
You should watch “The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai” whenever it comes out next on the History Channel. Fascinating stuff.
There’s a great post by Jane Galt about how we should think about torture in the post 9-11 era.
With many rhetorical flourishes, I was planning on showing how these two things are related.