ALLOWING OUR HANDS TO BE TIED: Both domestic opposition and the international community, unhappily, are "defining torture down. The things they're calling 'torture' now have never been and have no business being considered torture. . . . It is an effort to disarm us that's succeeding to a frightening extent. No, it's worse than that. They're trying to make it impossible to fight terrorism. . . . Every weapon that's been developed to protect us from terrorism, and the Iraqis from internal terrorism, is under assault." -- Joseph Rago, quoting Norman Podhoretz, opinionjournal.com, 8/12/06