by Eyas on 12/25/07, 4:25 am
I wrote that I'm sick of hearing about torture in this country, cuz I just don't see anything that I would consider torture.
But, to expand on the subject, I'm not opposed to torture.
Our enemies are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions, and the idea that we should be hamstrung by "Rules of War" that our enemy doesn't abide by is asinine, and potentially dangerous.
Also, given the daily atrocities committed by Al Qaeda and other terrorists, I could care less if they were tortured. Frankly, I'd prefer they were killed outright or imprisoned permanently. But then, I don't know what kind of information we are getting from these "people".
There is constant mention of this idea that if we engage in torture, we will become no better than our enemy.
I think that argument is crap!
The idea that we will become no better than them by utilizing torture is equivalent to saying that you're no better than your enemy if he punches you in the nose and you punch him back. It seems as if the distinction between aggressor and defender has lost its meaning for many people in this country.
War is a horrific, atrocious business no matter where, when, or who does it. There is a difference between cooking Iraqi children in ovens and attempting to serve the child to their parents in order to intimidate them from supporting U.S. Troops (something Al Qaeda in Iraq did on more than one occasion), and torturing a captured Al Qaeda terrorist to extract information that may save American (or Iraqi) lives.
There is a difference between BEING evil, and engaging in otherwise evil/immoral acts under extreme war-time circumstances. Even if we engaged in torture, we would not continue its use after the war. The enemy, on the otherhand, has routinely used the most vile torture and murder as their modus operandi. They will not cease to do so at any point in the future.
The current argument in this country about our so-called "torture" of Al Qaeda terrorist, is, to me, nothing more than an adjunct to the liberal agenda of losing the Battle of Iraq and the entire War on Terror. Total b.s.
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