Make no mistake, no US citizen outside of the political class benefits from this or other atrocities. Given that we don’t have all, or even most, of the data,

Make no mistake, no US citizen outside of the political class benefits from this or other atrocities. Given that we don’t have all, or even most, of the data, that’s really just emotionally driven speculation. And maybe I’m being overly nuanced, but I’m beginning to accept that there’s a qualitative difference between distasteful treatment of dozens of people suspected of having information about terrorists, and the systematic persecution of entire populations. I’m not terribly concerned that China, Russia, or anyone else is going to snatch and torture random nobody like me, and then justify it by pointing to CIA torture of Al Queda.