James Risen quotes:

The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer.

Journalists have no choice but to fight back because if they don't, they will become irrelevant,

I wrote Pay Any Price as my answer to the government's campaign against me.

To most of America, war has become not only tolerable but profitable, and so there is no longer any great incentive to end it.