<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Quote For The&nbsp;Day]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;When I give talks about interrogations and torture, people always ask me why I have a problem with it. I understand – I was all for torture right after 9/11. I would have tortured the hijackers myself if they were still alive, and if I had been able to find them. I wasn’t thinking very rationally. Then I started learning about terrorism and I met the people who had been tortured, and I realized how wrong I was – and naïve. Believing in torture means you aren’t looking at the facts on the ground–you are just believing in some kind of fantasy about how to fix the world,&#8221; &#8211; <a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/six-questions-for-tara-mckelvey-on-torture/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=six-questions-for-tara-mckelvey-on-torture" target="_blank">Tara McKelvey</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465005462/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0465005462&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=thdi09-20&amp;linkId=UPK7GVAOS2LSPNYK"><em>Monstering: Inside America’s Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War</em></a>.</p>
<p>Yes, that&#8217;s exactly the right adjective to describe Dick Cheney, beneath all the blather and bullshit: <em>naïve</em>.</p>
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