It’s easy for the Democrats to pander to the Left of their party especially during the primaries. But, there is a risk. It’s hard to come back to the middle for the election if you go too far. Hillary is playing the safest. John Edwards and Obama are not. The Iraq war may not be popular. Using torture and horrible prisons are easy positions to oppose. But, stopping the war against an enemy that will not stop attacking freedom leaves many Americans wary. A system that condones torture is not acceptable. A ticking time bomb use of Physiological forms of torture is acceptable by most Americans. If Mohammad Atta was in custody on Sep 10, I don’t think many Americans would have opposed interrogation to reveal the unfolding plot.

Alan Dershowitz echoes these thought in a Journal piece