Losing our mind

By James Krohe Jr.

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Janet Daley is the venerable commentator and critic for Britain's The Telegraph. Recently she took up the larger issues raised by the recent report of this country's secret post-9/11 torture program as discussed by CIA director John Brennan. "So yes, in the aftermath of 9/11, America had a national nervous breakdown. As Mr Brennan implied, the country briefly lost its mind," she notes. "The question is, did it also lose its soul?"

Her answer is worth reading, because she says here what should be being said much more widely in this country.

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