Quote Originally Posted by jcustis View Post
What do Fannie and Freddie have to do with waterboarding and collateral damage?
The link seems to be the proposition that torture, financial crises, and presumably much of the range of unpleasantness between trace back to a lack of some construct called "moral courage". Make of that what you will. I'm still not sure I understand what it's meant to be, beyond vigorous agreement with whoever is making the argument based on "moral courage".