America: Loss of moral direction?

'Tonight on my drive home from work I heard about how 'O' stated that America has lost it's 'moral direction' in the torturing of terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.

"America didn't lose it's moral direction in torturing terrorists. It lost it's moral direction in 1973 when it sanctioned the ripping and dismembering, the burning, the suctioning and the scraping out of millions of unborn babies. Now that's a loss of moral direction.

Some people simply have no sense of perspective."

-- Angel