Evil

In the midst of debating the supposed horrors of waterboarding terrorists and the need for removing artificial constraints from our intelligence services, this is a terrible, but useful, reminder. This is who our enemies are. This is what they do. They would do it, and worse, right here, if we gave them half a chance.

And meaning no offense to Federalists of non-Christian persuasion or of no persuasion at all: the shortest, and, according to some, the most powerful verse in the King James Bible consists of only two words: "Jesus wept."