We can take nothing for granted. A hundred years ago the British Navy looked fairly invincible for all time. A world managed by the Chinese, by a Franco-German-dominated European Union aligned with Russia, or by the United Nations (an organization that worships peace and consensus, and will therefore sacrifice any principle for their sakes) would be infinitely worse than the world we have now. And so for the time being the highest morality must be the preservation—and, wherever prudent, the accretion—of American power.
The purpose of power is not power itself; it is the fundamentally liberal purpose of sustaining the key characteristics of an orderly world. Those characteristics include basic political stability; the idea of liberty, pragmatically conceived; respect for property; economic freedom; and representative government, culturally understood. At this moment in time it is American power, and American power only, that can serve as an organizing principle for the worldwide expansion of a liberal civil society.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2003/07/kaplan.htm
SF & P Webb wrote:
"Torture survivors feel that their very core has been taken from them. That can be done in a number of different ways, but primarily it's a psychological, spiritual, and existential phenomenon. The physical injuries can be treated. It's the psychological effects that keep people in treatment for years."
http://citypages.com/databank/24/1193/article11583.asp
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