I have no problem with Predator attacks, and am quite happy that Obama is continuing them. But it is a bit weird to use waterboarding as a key to America's moral foundation and ignore all the rest of what necessarily happens in a war. But then, nobody really likes to think we're at war.

Note that Hanson's list also included other policies like rendition and tribunals.

In a year or so, when it turns out that most of Obama's security decisions are pretty much the same as Bush would have made if he'd had a third term, how will Democrats work their way past that?

Did they really think they could fix everything by simply redefining uncomfortable terms out of existence?

This from Germany.