Mondo Condi — The Fly on the Rice Paper

When you get used to expecting bad news, you're often rewarded. There's nothing rewarding, however, about Condi's other shoe dropping. In our self-created world of torture, we knew actual truth — not spin — would be forthcoming; we knew she would spend a week of American capital overseas only to have a mouthful of the story come wretching back. This is Mondo Condi because she broke it and she'll buy it, but we won't:

The Council of Europe investigates. Turns out CIA had prisons in Europe. The only (hah!) surprise is Europe's likely complicity.

We're hip-deep with the Iraqis, who seem to aspire to our world — as if they didn't already know a thing or two.

We're peas in a pod now, God help us.

And once discovered — "we do not torture" — we move them as fast as possible.

This must be rejected. My question is: Are the 38% who accept the necessity of torture the same 38% that stands by W. by hook and by crook, and are they the Christian Right?

Let's not dodge this fact. Let's confront it openly. Do American Christians support torture more than secularists? If so, it's a topsy-turvy world.