> Dick Cheney’s pushback on torture this week is well-calibrated: It’s an
> issue on which public sentiment is somewhat more equivocal than President
> Obama’s own view. While most people oppose torture, that view is short of
> monolithic – and opposition softens if it’s presumed actually to work, as
> the former vice president argues.
>
> This has been the case for years: Ask people if they support or oppose the
> use of torture, a straight up or down question, and majorities oppose it
.. and those whom do it only "obey orders"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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