Interesting article on torture gaining acceptance in the US

Below is a link to a very interesting article by Alfred McCoy, professor of History at University of Wisconsin, on the increasing acceptance of torture in the US. Here is an excerpt:

• ". . . Torture in defense of the "homeland" has gained surprisingly wide acceptance, while the torture debate has been reframed -- to the administration's great advantage -- as a choice between public safety and the lives of millions or private morality and bleeding-heart qualms over a few slaps up the side of the head. In this way, old-fashioned morality has been made to seem little short of immoral."

http://tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=57336