We Need Hero

As regular readers will remember, we praised Alberto Mora, the General Counsel of the Navy for his principled stand against torture by Us Forces. Yesterday, he received an award from the Kennedy Foundation, and part of his acceptance speech bears repeating:

"Cruelty disfigures our national character. It is incompatible with our constitutional order, with our laws, and with our most prized values. Cruelty can be as effective as torture in destroying human dignity, and there is no moral distinction between one and the other.”