"Senate votes to ban torture"
I saw that headline on the front page of the paper a couple of weeks back, and my first thought was "Which Senate? The Roman Senate?" It just appalls me that we should even be debating this question at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Among the ways we denigrate our terrorist opponents is to ridicule them as being stuck in the Ninth Century, as primitives a thousand years behind the lofty achievements of our own civilization. The willingness of the Bush Regime to shed a thousand years of civilization for the momentary convenience of being able to compell dubious testimony from a prisoner is, to me, the most vivid example of the damage that Bush has done to America during his tenure.