The Tortured Logic of the Left

It may seem an odd juxtaposition to use "logic" and "left" in the title of this post, given how completely devoid of logic the policies and programs of the political left are, but hopefully my reason for doing so will become clear.
Let me begin with some facts (which are also very scarce in the rantings of the political left);

1. After 9/11 the United States waterboarded exactly three terrorists. This action led to the acquisition of vital information that prevented further terrorist attacks, and the terrorists themselves suffered no lasting physical consequences of being waterboarded.
2. During the same year the waterboarding occurred, over 1,000 late-term abortions were performed in the United States. The procedure is also known as partial-birth abortion, for good reason. Babies, many of which would be viable on their own outside the womb, are partially delivered and then killed.

The political left, led by President Obama, believes that item 1 above was a horrendous miscarriage of justice and have spent years looking to punish those involved and the last few months apologizing to the world for the USA being a "torture nation".
These same people believe that item 2 is perfectly acceptable, the product of a woman's "choice". They praise as a hero a man, Dr. George Tiller, who performed hundreds of late term abortions resulting in the deaths of hundreds of viable babies. Yet they vilify the people who kept our country free from terrorist attack for over seven years because those people made three terrorists temporarily uncomfortable.
So, in the "logic" of the left, baby killers are heroes but the protectors of our nation are villains because they subjected known terrorists to some discomfort.
There are some things that are simply not compatible within a rational mind. Items 1 and 2 above would seem to be such things. It is simply not rational for the same person to believe that killing babies is acceptable but making terrorists uncomfortable in order to save American lives is not. Yet this is exactly what Obama and his sycophants in Congress and the media believe.
Unfortunately, basic logic tells us that the current leaders of our government are simply not rational thinkers. If they were, they could not possibly believe both of these things they so loudly proclaim they do believe.