From The Weekly Standard:The new numbers from Pew have support for torture at a 5 year high, with 19 percent saying torture is "often" justified when interrogating terror suspects and 35 percent saying it is "sometimes" justified. That's a majority of Americans who, unlike the president, understand that there are very real and very tough choices to be made between our security and our ideals.
Allahpundit looks at the numbers (click through to see the tables):
My Comment: This is a sizable shift .... and unexpected since we have been deluge for the past year or two on the "evils" of torture from our mass media.
The key sentence in this report is the last one ....
What percentage of Americans would support "enhanced interrogation" given the spike in support for real torture? In May of 2009, a CNN poll found that 50 percent of Americans supported the Bush administration's use of waterboarding. Could that number be up 10 points, too?
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