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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6494)	5/21/2007 12:27:08 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

"Thus, they are encouraged to be even more brutal because they sense that, by declining to retaliate in kind, we'll withdraw from the battlefied in order to preserve our sense of humanity. With no fear of suffering the same fate they inflict upon our own soldiers, and innocent civilians, they are encouraged to perpetuate their violent agenda because they know our will will weaken before their's does." Would you agree that there is a difference between Interogative Torture and Torture as punishment? Much of what you seem to be calling for is deterants for the enemy which seems to me to fall under consequences and punishments more than under best Interogative practices.