John addresses recent signs of the inexorable U.S search abroad for ‘monsters to destroy,’ including the Chinese dragon, as well as increased precariousness in the nuclear relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Ray offers his familiar, no-brainer explanation as to why people become terrorists (why ‘they hate us’) and why the polls purport to show that torture “works,” when it demonstrably doesn’t (unless it is false information you wish to coerce a prisoner to “confess” to. Ray draws on his most recent article for consortiumnews (see below):
John starts out; Ray’s segment is from minute 41 to 58.