Perhaps you might want to ask somebody like Senator McCain, a man who experienced years of torture in Vietnam.
For one thing, McCain endured YEARS of torture, not just to get information from him based upon any possible knowledge of imminent US actions.
Secondly, he was tortured to the point of physical impairment and utter brutality, none of which I recommend, or condone.
Thirdly, McCain was a UNIFORMED MEMBER OF THE US MILITARY, a signator of the Geneva Conventions, and was interrogated by military members of another signator of the Geneva Conventions, Vietnam. Members of Al Qai'da ARE NOT.
Furthermore, when you discipline your children by spanking and/or slapping them, or putting them in solitary confinement in their rooms, should the rest of the world consider them to be "heroes"?
Is this issue so controversial to you because, inside, you know that you've "tortured" your own children??
Hawk |
