Not to belabor the point but now the top U.N. human rights official has criticized the U.S. for its alleged torture of prisoners. The Washington Post has this report: U.N. Official Faults U.S. Detentions. From the article you can see that John Bolton is living all the way down to my very low expectations of […]

So just why is it that the U.S. has fewer friends than before. Condi Rice’s waffling provides a clue. According top the New York Times she clarified the picture on the American torture scandal: Rice Clarifies U.S. Interrogation Policy. But I come away from this article, and from her speech, more than convinced that the […]