Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (12141)	5/1/2009 10:12:11 AM
From: jlallen	6 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

The main problem is that people are focusing too much on the word "waterboarding" without looking at what the CIA actually did....

To: Bill who wrote (12141)	5/1/2009 10:49:17 AM
From: pompsander	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

There is no debate. Those who oppose waterboarding are the same ones who oppose the death penalty. Criminal coddlers always work against the interests of society. _________ It is not that simple. The JAG and the military leadership do not and did not support waterboarding. They are hardly the kind to not favor the death penalty....McCain opposes it. General Barry McCafferty opposes it. The military was strongly opposed to it back in 2001-2 when the program was first considered. It's not so black and white. ____________________ If there really were tactical or operational reasons for us to continue waterboarding, you might expect the military to favor it. And yet the JAGs and the military oppose the technique in the strongest terms. They oppose it because they recognize it's not particularly effective, and because they have to worry about our soldiers being subject to such treatment if captured. Most of all, they oppose it because they recognize the value of clarity for maintaining the discipline of America's military. As one of us has written, "[T]here are few slopes more slippery than that from small war crimes to large ones. Any wartime action, no matter how heinous, can always be justified by some battlefield exigency." slate.com