Polls Show Public Support for Torture

Kevin Drum shares a discouraging fact on Mother Jones.

This is the most discouraging part of the whole torture debate. It's one thing to learn that Dick Cheney is every bit the vicious wretch we all thought he was. But time after time since 9/11, polls have shown that the American public is basically on his side. As a nation, we simply don't believe that a comprehensive program of state-sanctioned torture is wrong. On the contrary: we think it's just fine as long as it's done to other people. If we're a Christian nation, as we're so often reminded, we're still an Old Testament one.