[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by smacklan

What? Are you serious? I admire you Sam, but you are way off on this one here. Just who the heck do you think Khalid Sheik Mohammad is? How many of these "non-terrorists" that have been released went right back to killing Americans...several. I'm sorry, but applying the rule of law to these animals will do nothing but get more people killed because they don't recognize these rules themselves, are seen as a sign of weakness to them and will use them against us...hello! I hope we have extracted every bit of info we possibly could from these a$$hats in whatever means necessary and move forward with giving them their martyrdom wishes.

You don't discard your own rule of ethics, just because the enemy doesn't share them. If they already shared your values, then they wouldn't be the enemy, now would they? Unless your advocating "if you can't be 'em, join 'em."

The problem with "by any means necessary" approach to interrogation, is that people seem to think that means immediately breaking out the dogs and the rubber hoses. Torture doesn't work, never has. Didn't work on Americans during WWII and doesn't work on people now. The most effective means of extracting information, which has also been proven even during this last administration, was through repoir building. All torture did was torture, and not much else. Well, that's not true. It did do something else. When word got out where we were doing to prisoners, it got the enemy a whole batch of new recruits. Practical.

What's the big problem anyway? You want to hold them indefinitely, even if, in the bloody chaos and confusion that is combat, they picked up some some schmo in the wrong place at the wrong time? Keep them prisoners just in case, and don't bother with trials or investigations, just in case? And what happens when that ideology spreads into the criminal justice system?