Does anyone seriously doubt that the use of prolonged solitary confinement will be listed in the history books alongside other examples of state-sponsored torture, slavery, and terrorism?<p>I&#x27;m not going to make any cliched remarks about karma here, but the United States will have to deal with the consequences of its actions eventually.<p>Ironically, our own history books are filled with such redemption stories, which forms the basis of the ludicrous exceptionalism that so infects rational discourse about most anything these days.