Korangate continued.

Anne Applebaum nails it:

But surely the larger point is not the story itself but that it was so eminently plausible, in Pakistan, Afghanistan and everywhere else. And it was plausible precisely because interrogation techniques designed to be offensive to Muslims were used in Iraq and Guantanamo, as administration and military officials have also confirmed.

Straddling the line...or straying beyond the line of torture does us no good. None. The extracted information is dubious. The PR fallout counterproductive. The immorality unquestionable.

That America finds itself stripped of its democracy credentials at a time when 'democracy' is the tip of the foreign policy spear is utterly baffling.