Torture will continue under the Obama administration, and I'm not talking about having to hear the song "At Last" another million times before Obama leaves office. Nice song, but enough already.
Torture is successful. Sucks to say that, but it is. Goes against normal human nature, or at least "the better angels of our nature," to come out in favor of torture, but we must, for the safety of our nation, come to an intellectual understanding that torture works.
There has not been another terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001, and other attacks have been thwarted, because key players in the terrorist world were detained and "coerced" into giving up information about imminent or future attacks.
Barack Obama has proven time and again that he is a practical man. He may speak poetically of change, but he will do what he thinks necessary to successfully achieve his goals, and right now, Obama's goals are to have a terror-free first term and be re-elected in 2012.
To achieve these goals, there will continue to be what some call torture. It will not officially or publicly be condoned by the White House, but the message through back channels to those who need to know, will be to do whatever it takes to keep US safe.
Change, in this case, and I'll bet many times in the future with President Obama, will be superficial. And in this case, that's not all that bad.
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