Roger Ebert, like most liberals, likes to pretend that our nation of hundreds of millions is now just as evil as the 9/11 terrorists because one person died from torture.
I'm not supporting the movie's assertions, I'm merely, for the sake of argument, taking Ebert's position that the movie tells the truth.
That's liberal logic for you. Stalin, Castro, so many other leftists--their wholesale use of torture gets a shrug and a "But we're supposed to be better than they are..."
In fighting a new kind of war, mistakes are going to be made, all kinds of techniques tried--that's not a glib excuse, it's merely fact. That's how the world goes. FDR, who I am guessing Ebert adores, executed German spies found in the US. HUAC worked under Democratic presidents. (You wouldn't know it from reading Ebert and his type--Joe McCarthy, a Senator, somehow is behind that HOUSE body). JFK, LBJ, Clinton ... The bodies they piled up in invading Vietnam and bombing Kosovo? Well, ya know, that's nothing compared to one guy who died wrongly while we were groping our way in the dark trying to stop the potential killing of thousands or more through dirty bombs, anthrax, etc.
But hey, Roger and his friends are all-knowing--THEY know how to defend us. Let's just turn all our defense procedures over to them--they'll never make a mistake, ever.
BTW, the use of troops to announce an award was so telling of the Left Coast's "We support the troops, just not the mission" bullsh*t. Let them announce a nothing category right before a category that had anti-war films among the likely winners. Real classy.
Excellent post (#8).