Desensitization

Maybe Dahlia Lithwick is right and the images of torture have lost their power to shock. What was a scandal at Abu Ghraib was essentially authorized yesterday.

But we don't know what a "grave breach" of the Geneva Conventions will be, as determined by the President. We don't know what's specifically OK or not OK in that law; indeed it'll be on a case-by-case basis. So it could very well be that we authorized this yesterday.



(as a note of levity, that's the only way you'll get me to watch any of Jakob the Liar)

The United States of America decided this was OK yesterday:



Desensitized yet?