"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state." -Thomas Jefferson
An institutional lack of commitment exists, led by the Right, to the concept of human rights embodied in the Geneva Conventions. What's worse, they justify their actions by wrapping them in the flag of patriotism.