The "sins of the father" ... torture
I have often thought people truly did not understand that pearl of wisdom.. what we do impacts through the generations.. while we as individual Americans do not condone, or participate in torture, when goverment officials do it in our name, we are smeared with their guilt by association.. It is good for us to expose this to the light of day. Yes President Obama stopped this when he came into office, but until we put the light on what happened, it will always be a cancer that can reoccur ...
What I find incredibly damning are people who are trying to call this enhanced interrogation.. trying to rename it.. or somehow we did not understand this was torture. Hello, this has been in the news for years.. this is not some turnip we just dug up..
Think before you act.. what we do impacts all around us. This is not a Ayn Rand world where what the individual does, is his business alone.. this is what that kind of thinking ends up producing. The ability to compartmentalize the things we do and think that they have no impact beyond the immediate.