FINAL NOTE ON TORTURE: For what it’s worth, I live and work very close to the White House. Two of my close friends live here too. My parents are also in D.C., and I have other friends within city limits. Add to that the friends I have in New York City. In other words, I’m pretty aware of being a target for the kinds of attacks that torture is supposed to prevent.

Radley wondered whether Jim Henley considered 9/11 to be an aberration. I don’t know what Jim thinks about that, but my own belief is that another major terrorist attack on U.S. soil is all but inevitable–torture or no torture. I consider it something of a miracle that “another 9/11” hasn’t already happened. If the Messiah tarries, I am pretty well convinced that it will happen.

Torture’s still wrong.