Amos, you must mean the diplomacy of bowing to the Saudi King or shaking hands with a Latin American President or speaking to a diplomat. If retold with Limbaugh spin these events sould be viewed by the unwashed public as heinous acts. The pudgy pimp for FOX Glen Beck is even more insidious with his schtick of his pretense of truth over bipartisanship. He is trying to do a serious double reverse Colbert routine with no humor or grace but only hate and derision.



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I will tell you something that will shock you unless you are in the field of psychology. 51% of all people will torture another person as long as there is an authority figure there to urge them to torture or even kill. This has been known for 50 years as a scientific behavior studies revealed.

The mudcat population is a bit skewed but none the less, even here, there are probably 1/3 of posters that would torture when put in a structured scenario of torture.

That is simply where we are as a herd mammal. I have known people who torture. Not the mental aggravation kind or torture but with powerful cattle prods on a defenseless girl. While they regretted it later it did not prevent them from doing so.

Our ideas of our species being overwhelmingly loving and kind are far loftier than the facts show.