Quote of the day

By Lee Russ

Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 04:52 PM

No one doubts that arbitrary torture is wrong. Were we to pull random American citizens from their homes and drag them into a cell for a bit of waterboarding, we would undoubtedly be destroying our own moral fiber and discrediting our history. We would be no better than the Islamists we fight. But there is a fundamental difference between our treatment of non-citizens and our treatment of citizens. There is a fundamental difference between how we treat our friends and how we treat our enemies.

What distinguishes us from our enemies is not how we treat our enemies, but what we fight to ensure for our friends.

Ben Shapiro, conservative columnist for several right wing sites, explaining why torture in the service of Western civilization is a good thing.