収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

Is it simply that the people in charge of this stuff want their country to be hated worldwide, for some offset reason or another? Keeps the people from travelling out of country? Enhances the Big Stick model of diplomacy?

And yes, waterboarding IS torture, except maybe in torture states where the very word "torture" means what the folks in charge want it to mean.

I have absolutely no idea how, or even whether, this state of affairs can be fixed. George Bernard Shaw would probably propose making The Old White Guys sleep on the couch for a while.... but how realistic is that idea, when so many women, too, seem to support this stuff?