tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post8784984783657638322..comments2024-03-24T21:06:57.039-07:00Comments on FOUSESQUAWK: Torture-Should We Do It?Gary Fousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014739065121483409noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59324506101124457.post-46008879787647579602007-11-05T10:00:00.000-08:002007-11-05T10:00:00.000-08:00I have no respect for those who say we should neve...I have no respect for those who say we should never torture under any circumstances. This is a a mentality that would see thousands killed so that America doesn't ruin its reputation. It is an absolute adherence to an ideology that costs lives. The retort that by continuing to waterboard we risk the lives of Americans kidnapped by Islamists is asinine - the extremists have already shown that they care nothing for the life of the infidel. The internet is full of videos showing the head of innocents being cut from their body - would they appreciate the difference between the two forms of "torture?"<BR/><BR/>This idea that we have agents out torturing people en masse is a leftist concoction that is willfully jaundiced - it comes from a perspective that America is the terrorist, spreading through a pristine world a poison that originates here. It is frustrating to me that we have Democratic leaders playing to a crowd that has no education on the issue - as if the act itself of forcing information from a suspect is anathema to American ideals. <BR/><BR/>Waterboarding must remain an option to break terrorist suspects - and if we are forced to abandon it, be sure that the next thing we will not be able to do are those things that are at the most, uncomfortable - cold and heat room temperature manipulation or sleep deprivation. The goal of many of those demanding an end to "torture" is to undermine the WOT - I truly believe that.<BR/><BR/>I trust that we have people in place who recognize the true objective - to get information. It makes no sense to torture those who have none to give, and it makes no sense to believe that we have goons who cannot recognize when the techniques they are using are not working. We are not cutting off hands or gauging eyes (see Al Qaeda's torture manual from Iraq) - the murderers of innocents walk from interrogation rooms to Halal meals and prayer mats.<BR/><BR/>The War on Terror is not a God damned video game. Sometimes I think we here on the home front lose sight of that.Shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08728409097850907265noreply@blogger.com