You can't extoll the virtues of a distributed, decentralized government then sweep its implications under the rug when you want to criticize a particular person.
I've been thinking about your response for most of the day. A rant follows.
I'm having real troubles seeing how torture is the direct result of a distributed, decentralized government based on the Magna Carta and the rule of law, and even greater difficulties with the idea that one man who happens to be the fucking President of the United States and a Constitutional scholar who promised to make America live up to its honor can't somehow induce the fucking military of which he is the Commander in Chief to shut down an illegal torture facility that is in blatant violation of our treaty obligations. That's not sweeping the implications under the rug, that's what I consider to be, you know, kind of the point of having a government. Or America, really. You want to call Nazi-lite a natural outcome of a distributed decentralized government, you just go right ahead, but we might as well just ask the last American out to turn off the lights on democracy if that's so.
You can't extoll the virtues of a distributed, decentralized government then sweep its implications under the rug when you want to criticize a particular person.