This is garbage. The legal use of torture is fully contradictory to American and expecially conservative values. We cannot become terrorists to defeat them.
If several government agents feel that it is necessary to break the law and torture a suspect to find a ticking bomb, sobeit. The courts and history will judge their actions.
But the United States of America should never allow any practice that is universally viewed as torture to be legal.
Those of you who think otherwise are myopic, foolish and lack true conservative values.
We should not allow a 'practice' of anything WE agree is sadistic and unnecessary torture.
The rest of the peaceful, we are the world' community; who with their self-congratulatory, 'collective visions of humanitiy'; and despite the horrific realities that their 'world family members' suffer. . .nonetheless, sleep well. And that, keeps me awake.
These 'we are the world' dreamers. . .dream through the nightmares of tortured histories. . .where torture was/IS routine; and death imposed upon unfortunate citizens by their own governments is the norm. . .
Whether by starvation. . .execution; whether they are enslaved or slaughtered or just buried alive. . the suffering of this world family. . .of innocent human beings does not disturb their dreaming 'sisters and brothers'. . ..
This torture of a community is okay.
I would ask, just who is in greater jeopardy of becoming the enemy; the person who recognizes the evil of imposed pain and suffering; or the person who does not care who suffers or how; as long as it does not wake him up.
Humiliation, abasement, and embarrasment are NOT torture.
Torture is watching the greatest, most God-fearing nation on this planet rive itself over insignificant minutiae.
Torture is deprivation, AND physical abuse.
Torture is being held powerless while your loved ones are abused and killed.
Torture is what the Spanish Inquisition did. To (by most measure) INNOCENT (by enlightened standards) people.
What the "irregulars" of Iraq and Afghanistan are subject to doesn't even qualify as "mistreatment", let alone torture.