My Two Cents on "Torture's Terrible Toll".

RWotG ^ | 11-16-2005 | Dan S.

[Lusis]

In a fight to the death, would you restrain from hitting your opponent in the groin? Or would you pull out all the dirty tricks - fishhooking, eye-gouging, pressure points, biting, ear-tearing, etc.?

That is a question that I think one has to ask themselves in light if the article that is in the November 21st issue of Newsweek written by Senator John McCain.

Don't get me wrong, he is absolutely right when he states that painful torture is an unreliable and ineffective way to extract information, as I learned when I spoke to an instructor of the U.S. Army's SERE (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) school a few years back. Nor am I advocating the beating and physical abuse of captured enemy combatants. The reports of physical abuses and the abuse in Abu Ghraib, were initiated by dumb soldiers rather than professional interrogators, and more often than not investigated and dealt with by the military on their own initiative. Yet one has to ask themselves, "what would I do if I was interrogating a terrorist that possibly has information that could thwart an attack? Will you say....

[Graycliff]

Just my opinion, but in a situation of war, if i knew you had info that would save the lives of innocent people, or my troops, i would heavily advise your to cooperate.