"It's interesting to watch who reflexively tries to handicap the side of good and empower that of evil."

"You ought to ask yourself a question: here we are, at war with people who've declared they want to kill or enslave us all and destroy our civilization, and your instinctive impulse is to cark at your own side, and sympathize with the sort of people who blow themselves up in restaurants full of mothers and children."

"Why, exactly, do you have this reflex?"

1. Part of the problem is that many of the people in Gitmno and Abu Ghraib were not captured at the scene of the crime, they were rounded up later. Inevitably, some or many of those in prison are _not_ the sort of people who blow themselves up in restaurants. They are the sort of people who are just trying to live their lives. The humane treatment of prisoners is a necessity because of those innocents at least.

2. You don't get to be "the side of good" just by saying so. "Good" is what you do. "Good" is treating prisoners decently. Torturing them puts you on the side of "evil".
(If you want to argue that its just us against them, and you have to choose us - fine. That's a rational - if sociopathic - argument. But then stop bringing good and evil into it)

3. Do you have that fiver on you, or do I have to write off to a newspaper to get it?