business as usual: "The promotion of torture by certain US officials, civilian and military, is the defining moral issue of this American generation.  Or not.   There was a time, not long ago, when news of American atrocities and human rights abuses (think My Lai) were met with horror.  Today the government, the media, and therefore much of the public have come to accept the condemnation of our country's actions by Amnesty International and the like as business as usual."

(Via Night Light.)