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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Neocon who wrote (131769)5/7/2004 7:40:09 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<no other means available except a beating>

1. You've got a prison full of prisoners, and you have no idea which one has the crucial intel. Torture them all?
2. Maybe none of the prisoners you hold, has the intel. Torture them all, anyway, just in case?
3. Under torture, people will tell you whatever they think will stop the torture. So the intel is suspect.
4. in your cost/benefit analysis, you're leaving out other important consequences: the rage of the prisoners (and their families, and their friends, when they find out what happened) when the prisoners are released back into the community. The increased chance our own soldiers will get tortured, when the tables are turned.

What you and Hawkmoon are posting back and forth to each other, is exactly what Saddam's torturer's told each other.

You've gone far, far down the slippery slope into savagery.
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