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To: B-Chan

If enemy prisoners were tortured i really don't care!Winning is all that matters and by any means necessary.


8 posted on 02/15/2006 1:15:05 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: INSENSITIVE GUY

If torturing enemy prisoners is necssary to achieve victory, it is a warrior's duty to torture them -- and then accept the judgment of the law and the consequences for doing so.

But not caring? That way leads madness. We should never flinch from inflicting harm upon the enemy, whether by killing or torture, but we should NEVER allow ourselves to not care about the morality of what we are doing. We should defend our nation with joy and zeal, but we should never inflict any more harm than is absolutely necessary to win. We must at time butcher our fellow human beings -- but if we ever forget that they ARE our fellow human beings, we lose the war whether we win on the batlefield or not.

Torture of an enemy combatant (e.g. a prisoner who is withholding information needed to save lives) is evil -- but it is a sometimes-necessary evil. Torture of a genuine noncombatant -- a civilian, a wounded enemy, or a captured enemy with no critical information -- is a war crime. You'd better care about that. The American military does not commit war crimes as a matter of national policy, and those under Amercan command who do commit them will be arrested, prosecuted, and punished.

War is an ugly busness, and it will turn us ugly if we allow hatred to be our motivation instead of duty. We should kill the enemy, maim him, torture him, roast him alive with napalm or uranium atoms if we have to, may God forgive us -- but we must keep always in mind the fact that the enemy is a human being, too -- a priceless and unique artifact of the Deity -- and treat him likewise.


10 posted on 02/15/2006 5:10:27 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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