Subject: Arguments against enhanced interrogation make no senseLeaving aside moral objections, the arguments dealing with the efficacy of enhanced interrogation by the left seem to make no sense to me, and I'm a democrat. No dedicated terrorist like Abu Zubaydah is going to give you the information you want just by asking him. To say you can trick you into giving you what you want or just be nice to them and they will give you what you want is absurd. That is the equivalent of saying that if terrorists were looking for your child or your parents so they could kill them they could just be nice to you and promise you good prison conditions and eventually you will tell them. Then the left makes nonsensical objections like: "people will just say whatever you want them to say if you torture them". Well of course they might try to lie, but eventually you will get to the truth. If they lie to you keep going until you get to the truth. If they say you can find them by looking in X location go check and if they aren't there try again. The next objection is well this process is a waste of time. Of course this is time consuming but the other option is to get no information out of the individual ever. The moral arguments are a different story. I personally think if waterboarding an individual who you are 99.9% sure is a terrorist is necessary to save lives it should be done but I could see how a reasonable person would disagree. One could argue that if we torture them they are more likely to torture us etc. |