He is representative of your whole country (one of the enthusiastic elite minority, the fewer supporters the better.)

He’s inspirational, prompts us here to work out and stay fit (he can contain Russia effectively and preemptively, has won before, in the cold war etc.)

He can help dehumanize the potential enemy (which is you), the most important thing in warfare.

How come we dehumanize anyone for torture when we ourselves tortured people here, both before and after ww2.

Simple, we never tried to think up rules / rationales / proper procedures.
Acting on hate and anger why would one use ‘rules’ and clever little names unless one is a SLEAZY TWO-TIMING COWARD?

Surrender now, we do take war prisoners and don’t beat them.

I wish someone on the panel would have pointed this out because we’ve all heard Cheney’s lines before. He isn’t adding anything new and doesn’t have any authority.

Laura brought up an excellent point about the contradiction in Obama’s rhetoric and his actions; something “Ed” saw fit to purely gloss over (even misleading about) when he introduced the segment.

Anyway, I appreciate you posting this video clip, it was a solid reminder why not to watch television “news.” I’ve found that doing searches on Google Video for the names of the leading researchers and academics on a particular subject bears much more fruit. You can consume an hour long interview or lecture buy Warren, Bacevich, Galbraith, etc. and walk away with information… instead of a headache.