What the terrorism debate is all about

Glenn Greenwald tells us what the terrorism debate is all about:

That is what most of these terrorism-related debates are about, and it is especially what this current torture/Guantanamo debate will determine -- whether we want to be the country we have always aspired to be and which adheres to the values and principles which we have advocated, or whether we want to fundamentally change the country we are by pursuing ... [a] decadent, depraved vision of a country that abducts, detains, interrogates and slaughters without constraints, limits or law. Americans have always attemped to defeat enemies while adhering to -- rather than abolishing -- our core principles. That is exactly what ... [Bush supporters] oppose.

[Note: The Greenwald piece is actually about a Mark Levin article. I have edited out the specific references to Levin since the paragraph would not stand by itself with them included.]