***as the attack on the Twin Towers morphed from an outrage to a tragedy.***
Pearl Harbor...”Those dirty Japs! I’m joining up tomorrow and kill Japs!”
Twin Towers...”OH WHAT did we do to them to make them hate us so! I would join up and....Oh gosh! Gotta run to my basket weaving class!”
You’ve got it. A country that thinks water boarding, from which you walk away uninjured, is torture probably is too compassionate to survive.