I remember reading about a 14-year old girl being hanged in Iran because she sassed the judge. According to this story, it is illegal to execute a virgin girl in Iran, so they sometimes have to rape the girls before they hang them. That no doubt makes sense to Muslims. And to liberals, who believe in moral equivalence. Somehow liberals seem to think that waterboarding KSM to obtain information to protect ourselves from terrorist attacks is worse than raping and hanging a teen-aged girl for sassing a judge.

Regarding treatment of KSM, the prominent liberal Sonia Sotomayor told the Senate that we don't have the right to self-defense. I recall that during the 2004 election John Kerry said, regarding terrorist attacks, that we should just take the hits. At the time I couldn't understand where Kerry was coming from; Sotomayor has explained it for me.