Posted on 11/15/2005 6:18:31 AM PST by MurryMom
Washington How did American interrogation tactics after 9/11 come to include abuse rising to the level of torture? Much has been said about the illegality of these tactics, but the strategic error that led to their adoption has been overlooked.
The Pentagon effectively signed off on a strategy that mimics Red Army methods. But those tactics were not only inhumane, they were ineffective. For Communist interrogators, truth was beside the point: their aim was to force compliance to the point of false confession.
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Thanking you Chena, for your son's service! And thanks to all our other brave troops and their families.
thanks.
Please tell why restricting our prisoner handling strategy to what is laid out in a public domain document would be a good strategy.
Please describe currently used U.S. interrogation techniques which qualify as torture.
Actually, ErnBatavia was off the mark. You're in over your head when dealing with reality. Politics is just one segment of it.
Gee, I had no idea that you didn't agree with the methods and ideology of the Soviet Union.
Color me impressed. :P
So wait a minute...these soldiers are being court martialed for murder, but you and the NYT are going to pretend that they were following established interrogation procedures? Bullfeathers.
How do the actions of your "greatest living president" and the 2004 Dem nominee in slashing the intel budgets fit into the whole intel gathering mojo?
Other approaches with prisoners are much more effective than torture.
For instance, we tried a couple of things down at Gitmo that fell well short of torture, with mixed results. First, we threatened to make the prisoners listen to MurryMom talk about politics. That didn't work because Al Qaeda guys adore her kind of politics because it makes their job so easy. So we switched tacks and brought in an imam who told them that all the virgins in paradise look like MurryMom, and that Allah also requires post-coital cuddling. They all immediately abandoned their radical version of Islam, and sang like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
The only downside to a more humane approach is that sadistic christofascists in the Bush Administration won't have any fun.
Please back up your characterization of christofascism with a fact or two.
But then I noticed that you got banned for doing it and I figured that was good enough. Have a nice Air Force day.
LOL!!
If you keep holding back your true feelings, you'll become stressed. ;)
Yeah, I know, I'll probably get an ulcer by holding it all in...;-)
"Yeah, you tell 'em, baby! By the way, wanna kiss it?"
Oh, here's YOUR "honest" President with some interesting folks...
Bill and the Ridays AND John Huang
And gee, did he tell Juanita Broaddrick to "put some ice on it" AFTER this pic?
Obviously, this pic was taken before his goons killer Kathleen Willey's cat and threatened her!
So, in the game of "moral relativism", you and your ilk STILL suck worse!
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