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it is not silly if kitt unconsciously make his point in a much broader sense -
Our family is American, American Indian, German and French and after 911 there wasn't one 'FBA' (Full blooded 'American' Democrat or Republican) who wouldn't have tolerated torture
'to get the evildoers' and one of our French relatives blamed it entirely on the 'Wild West heritage' and the American preference to solve conflicts with brute force.
As a HBG (Half bloodied German) I realize that the Germans used to be in the same boat (in a matter of speaking) but after the second WW the Americans did a very good job in reeducation - and so sixty years later the 'Germans' had to reeducate their American
relatives that torture is a 'no-no' under ANY conditions. And now the torture question has become the 'Gretchenfrage' in our family and the right question to judge the character of every person we come in contact with - And if we get a Feinsteinweaselanswer the person ( if she or he is worth it) gets treated with a Potpourri of waterboardingfilms.
