Thanks. Have you read about Sherwood F. Moran's approach to interrogation? He rejected even mild deprivation, and apparently got fantastic results during WWII.
I got this link from beaver fever's #79:
http://tianews.blogspot.com/2005/05/enlightened-hard-boiled-ness.html
Did he ever try that on radical islamists who think death in defying us would get them god-status and eternity with 79 eternal virgins? islamic fanatics are not the same as nazis and japs. Most germans were not nazis, and even though most japs were fanatical, they are not as bad as the islamic terrorists of today. I still contend, based on information from first hand sources, that people like the terrorists are much more likely to talk if pressed, than if they're given three hots and a cot at the Marriot.
Okay, I've already got one problem with something he asserts. He suggests that Reagan was "passive" in dealing with Gorbachov and things would have been worse if Reagan had been "stronger" against him. Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire and challenged Gorbachov by name at the Berlin Wall to tear it down, and people on the left cursed him as a mad man who was going to provoke nuclear war. I don't see how could be described as weak in dealing with the Soviets. Responding positively but firmly to Gorbachov's gestures does not chnge the fact that Reagan was a hard conservative who did not compromise when it came down to the line. 8)