I suspect more Americans are inclined to support advanced interrogation techniques

[MrMike]

Especially if it means saving lives. I realize that the Left gets indignant about it and uses the challenge that we shouldn't be as bad as our enemy but in reality we aren't.

This focus on trying to claim a moral high ground while you are being killed by Islamist's who use the Left's hand-wringing angst against us is counterproductive.

There are no hearts and minds of this enemy (Islamists) to win, nor is that a winning strategy for this type of war of long term attrition we are in. Either we suck it up and play this out to win (including doing what it takes to pull intelligence from captives) or we can go the "pretty please" route and apologize to our enemies for them killing us over and over...until no one cares anymore.

Sorry folks, but I don't lose a second of sleep worrying about advanced interrogation techniques. I can't feel sorry for head chopping infidel hating Islamists. I prefer to see them decimated to a point that they can not sustain their campaign against us.

 

[Caroljo]

I used to be against torture, and still am in most cases. I'm not for ANY type of torture, I have my limits....but what do they have to fear of being captured if they KNOW this isn't going to happen? If we're at war with a "country" that is supposed to follow the Geneva convention, then we must always follow those rules. We are NOT at war with a country. We're at war with a radical religion. A religion that says no other religion counts, and that all must convert to their religion or die. And by die I mean the most horrible deaths imaginable! They probably don't even know what the Geneva convention is! Or they just don't care. Why should we then?

 

[Boltlady]

Especially if it means saving lives. I realize that the Left gets indignant about it and uses the challenge that we shouldn't be as bad as our enemy but in reality we aren't.

This focus on trying to claim a moral high ground while you are being killed by Islamist's who use the Left's hand-wringing angst against us is counterproductive.

There are no hearts and minds of this enemy (Islamists) to win, nor is that a winning strategy for this type of war of long term attrition we are in. Either we suck it up and play this out to win (including doing what it takes to pull intelligence from captives) or we can go the "pretty please" route and apologize to our enemies for them killing us over and over...until no one cares anymore.

Sorry folks, but I don't lose a second of sleep worrying about advanced interrogation techniques. I can't feel sorry for head chopping infidel hating Islamists. I prefer to see them decimated to a point that they can not sustain their campaign against us.

No real surprise that you would approve. Of course a person being tortured will say whatever they think you want to hear which doesn't make it the truth. They could even use the 'opportunity' to throw those they don't like under the bus.

We have drugs and hypnosis that allow us to extract the truth without resorting to our animal instincts. But then if we used those sorts of techniques it wouldn't allow us to vent our frustrations on some hapless soul who might actually be innocent.

 

[Barbella]

Especially if it means saving lives. I realize that the Left gets indignant about it and uses the challenge that we shouldn't be as bad as our enemy but in reality we aren't.

This focus on trying to claim a moral high ground while you are being killed by Islamist's who use the Left's hand-wringing angst against us is counterproductive.

There are no hearts and minds of this enemy (Islamists) to win, nor is that a winning strategy for this type of war of long term attrition we are in. Either we suck it up and play this out to win (including doing what it takes to pull intelligence from captives) or we can go the "pretty please" route and apologize to our enemies for them killing us over and over...until no one cares anymore.

Sorry folks, but I don't lose a second of sleep worrying about advanced interrogation techniques. I can't feel sorry for head chopping infidel hating Islamists. I prefer to see them decimated to a point that they can not sustain their campaign against us.

Terrorists have a choice: Be a terrorist, or not.

Whatever they choose to be, they must be prepared to deal with whatever consequences their actions bring. If they choose to be disgusting, evil scum who delight in torturing and murdering innocent men, women, and even children, they lost their humanity and their right to live. Torturing them in order to elicit information that might help defeat them is completely justifiable.



CHOICE.