Links of interest for March 8th, 2007 through March 10th, 2007:

• The Decider and Torture
  - Andrew Sullivan: "[Bush's] dry-drunk capacity for utter denial of reality - especially about his own moral complicity in torture and the deaths of thousands of innocents in Iraq - renders him immune from taking moral responsibility. For anything."
• The Potent, the Omnipresent Teacher
  - Why are we such a violent society? Is it violent videogames? Lots of released prisoners? Meth? Or could it be our military-industrial culture? IOZ asks the question rhetorically, of course: the answer is obvious.
• Learning a New Language While Building a House: Reflections on Quaker Heritage Day
  - A summary of the remarks of Brian Drayton and others at Quaker Heritage Day in Berkeley, California. A good, chewy post with lots of food for thought
• What Have They Done to My Corps?
  - A dying Marine watches television and cries.
• Confessions of a Torturer
  - Tony Lagouranis talks about torturing detainees in Iraq. An illustration of how the policies of the military under the Bush administration guaranteed atrocities in Iraq.