“[T]he conditions under which Manning is being detained were once recognized in the U.S. — and are still recognized in many Western nations — as not only cruel and inhumane, but torture.”The inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention — Glenn Greenwald — Salon.com This just reminds me of my father’s misgivings about Barack Obama: not that he had anything other than the best intentions, but that he was too inexperienced a politician to be able to force the POS bureaucrats with which he’s surrounded to make those intentions reality.