RealClearPolitics - The Opposite of Intelligence

RealClearPolitics - The Opposite of Intelligence: "The mantra from the left during the Bush years went something like this: The world is not black and white. Sophisticated minds should seek out different, nuanced opinions.

Now that Barack Obama is president, you can say a farewell to nuance. The left chants, 'torture doesn't work' -- defining waterboarding and sleep deprivation as torture. Obama has a longhand version of that mantra in his rejection of the 'false choice between our security and our ideals.'

In Obamaland, somehow there never are difficult choices. From the presidency that was supposed to promote intellectualism comes the argument that waterboarding is immoral -- which is a fair argument to make, until its adds: and it doesn't work.

But common sense tells you that techniques like sleep deprivation, waterboarding and a forced bland diet work, at least some times.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (aka KSM) didn't exactly want to help the CIA. Yet Americans are supposed to believe that asked-nicely interrogations yielded or would have yielded the same information as 'enhanced techniques' designed to inflict extreme discomfort and dread?"