The company we keep:

Alan Dershowitz's Dream for America

(Via This Modern World)

This is an unusual rhetorical gambit from Alan Dershowitz:

Marginal Democratic candidates certainly benefit from moving to the left on national security issues, but serious candidates–candidates who want to have any realistic chance of prevailing in the general election–must not allow themselves to be pushed, shoved or even nudged away from a strong commitment to national security.

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism…

There are some who claim that torture is a nonissue because it never works–it only produces false information. This is simply not true, as evidenced by the many decent members of the French Resistance who, under Nazi torture, disclosed the locations of their closest friends and relatives.

You know, I was on the fence there about torture, until Dershowitz pointed out it really worked well for the Nazis! Color me convinced!

Wow! Do jerks like Dershowitz even read their own stuff before they send it out? What the man is saying is that we should be like the Nazis! I am rendered almost speechless by this, which veers from idiocy into the realm of insanity.

The whole debate about torture is one of insanity versus the principle of law. And invoking "national security" is a bogus tactic. If our country needs torture to be secure, we don't deserve security.

Those who support torture, or who, like some of the Democrats, acquiesce to the support of torture, are complicit in war crimes. And we know what happened to the Nazis about that . . . .