Two numbers, and a question

36.  44.

Those numbers are, respectively, the percentage of US citizens that when polled said they condoned torture in 2006 & this year.

Leaving aside the obvious moral implications of this, especially with regard to American Exceptionalism & our overall foreign policy, here’s the question: why has this number gone up?

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