The Seamless Garment of Death

Memo to Dean Barnett: If you're looking to persuade me that torture is a necessary wartime evil, it's probably not a good idea to start by comparing it to abortion and the firebombing of Dresden. Just a thought. (Mark Shea has a more thorough response to Barnett's weird exercise in right-wing relativism.)

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2007/05/the-seamless-garment-of-death/54308/