Our nation will torture again. Let these conservatives explain why.

There will be no criminal accountability for the American policy of torturing war prisoners. That has already been determined. It is also almost certain that, in one of the next few administrations, America will return to those same pro-torture policies. As has been true for years, torture advocates (yes, that is a thing) are far more furious about exposure of the program than about the part where the United States of America, a supposedly exceptional nation, tortured and killed prisoners in various attempts to get them to divulge or fabricate information.
That would be the ambitious Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a presidential contender, and the person who will now be running the agenda of the United States Senate. That would be Republican ex-congressman and current radio show host Joe Walsh. And here's the omnipresent neoconservative pundit and man who fits his name Max Boot:
Well now we wouldn't want to damage the morale of anyone who actually tortured people. Calling torture techniques "long discontinued," however, is a bit of a red herring when many of the most influential political minds in the nation continue to advocate for resuming the practice at next opportunity. The last Republican presidential candidate pledged to resume the practice in his campaign rhetoric.

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