More hysterics from Sullivan

Ah, Andrew Sullivan. If there is anyone in the blogosphere more able to engage in melodramatics, I haven't read the blog.

God, can he get more pathetic? Just read his weepy post regarding Amnesty International's report to the UN about US 'torture'. I put 'torture' in quotes because some of AI's examples of torture are laughable at best. Examples: tasers, hooding, and dogs. Like I said, laughable. And it's amazing that AI cites 1) its own past reports as legitimate fact, and 2) assumes allegations are indeed fact. Besides that, fully half of the report involves AI's general complaints about domestic prisons!

'Widespread torture'. That's what Sullivan says is happening. What does he mean by 'widespread'? What's widespread to him? What does he mean by 'torture'? Sounds like to me 'widespread' and 'torture' is whatever Sullivan defines it to be.

I don't deny that torture and criminal deaths have happened during the GWOT and they should be prosecuted, but hyperventilating like this is just like crying 'Wolf!' one too many times.