It is the torturers who take down the USA, not those who understand that we must never permit it. In my opinion, those who commit these crimes - and those who defend them - do our enemies' work for them by forsaking the values that we are supposed to be defending. If anything is un-American, this is it. If we let enemies scare us into it, America is finished and Al-Qaeda or ISIL don't have to lift a finger. It would be exactly what Osama bin Laden predicted would happen, and we would have become what he said we were. Decadence and moral collapse are what he expected, and he believed he could goad us into it. The torturers hand him the victory.
