You don't have to become evil to fight evil

In fact, if you do, you are no longer fighting evil, you are perpetuating it.

I listened to a NPR story this morning about Fort Hunt, a secret military base where Nazi prisoners of war were interrogated during World War Two.

Researching it a bit more I found an article in the Washington Post last year covering a meeting of some of the veterans of P. O. Box 1142 (what Fort Hunt was referred to while it was operating).

These veterans decried our country's current stance on interrogation, both on moral grounds and on grounds that it is just not as effective.

This was a War that was orders of magnitude much more critical and bloody than our current "war on terror" and we composed ourselves much better, in this respect, then than we are now.

It saddens me how far and how fast we have fallen.