thoughts on torture

Something occurred to me yesterday about the administration's soft line on torture. Why would an administration acquiesce to the use of torture in a war they could win without that particular PR stain, and without that particularly unreliable information-gathering method? I think the fact that torture is so widespread is a pretty clear indication not only that we're losing this war now, but that we probably aren't going to win it at all.

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