Didn't we all grow up in the US being taught that we fought against tyranny and torture?  That our fathers and grandfathers went to war to prevent this from happening?  It was either all a big lie or we have made a very wrong turn somewhere in the last generation.  I just cannot get my head around what it must take (or lack) for an individual to torture another human being.

Only part of the U.S. believes this.  Others believe that the descriptions of war in the Bible set the standards for today.