Turning Obama's Coup Into Defense of Torture
Andrew Sullivan, Dly BstIt's maddening to me - but entirely predictable - that Obama's successful coup in finding and killing Osama bin Laden should be turned by the GOP into a defense of torture. It is almost as if they cannot explain how on their watch, when torture was widespread in every branch of the services and authorized by the White House, they were unable to get bin Laden, indeed unable to make any serious progress either in the terror war, where they let Osama get away in Tora Bora, or in the democratization of the Middle East.There is no evidence that torture was integral to capturing bin...