I had thought that after so much exposure, thousands of Americans would be holding vigils on Capitol Hill, that religious leaders would be asking God’s forgiveness, and that a popular groundswell of revulsion, similar to the nineteenth-century anti-slavery movement, would emerge. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, if torture is not wrong, nothing is wrong.
我曾经认为在暴露了这么多真相后，有许多美国人会到国会山上守夜，宗教领袖会请求上帝的原谅，并出现类似于19世纪反对奴隶制度运动时的普遍的公众厌恶情绪。根据亚伯拉罕·林肯的观点，如果拷打没有错，那么，就没有什么是错的了。