My first thought is nothing changes. In the recent PBS Vietnam War documentary they show film footage of the US military tiger teams waterboarding an elderly V

My first thought is nothing changes. In the recent PBS Vietnam War documentary they show film footage of the US military tiger teams waterboarding an elderly Vietnamese villager (episode 8/9?). And on the other side the North Vietnamese tortured all the American POW's, and we heard from Hal Kushner directly and learned about what they did to McCain and others who survived to bear witness. But we expect more from our side, we don't expect to be the "baddies". When we call it a war (on terror), we expand the limits on what some will justify. Having a war on an idea means there's essentially no end in sight.