[cricket]

This guy they're questioning thinks the Americans will torture him horribly. They won't but he doesn't know that.

Yes, and I was thinking these 'lib folks' who labor to protect the rights of these anti-Western civilization terrorists; these jihadist for Islam; worry bout 'panties on the head' et al. . .and those that proudly - if not irrationally - nod assent with them. . .might just experience a higher revelation of sorts. . .

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

We Americans are tremendously naive about the savagery of our enemies. We need to WAKE UP!!

[TexasPatriot8]

Anyone who would oppose smacking around a terrorist to extract information that would stop an attack saving thousands, hundreds, dozens, or even just one life, is a sick demented person. Whether a loved one or a stranger, I'd gladly and with great fervor beat the snot out of ANYONE who had information that would stop an attack that would kill ANY number of Americans. Anyone who wouldn't do the same is sick in their head. The terrorist will recover from the beating. The civilians killed in a terrorist attack won't recover from being dead anytime soon I don't believe.

If information can be extracted without torture, of course that should ALWAYS be first. But when the rubber meets the road, they sit there smiling at you, you know they know something, and you know people will die if the terrorist doesn't tell you what they know, well, some bruises for them is what I say.

Any critic of physical means of extracting information, I'd like to see them say on the record that if they knew that their loved ones, their wife/husband, or parents, or children, were going to die in the attack, and they could only get the information to stop the attack by beating them up some, and they wouldn't do that, they're full of it. If they love their family member at all, they'll smack the guy around until he talks, and if they'd do it for someone they love, and then critique someone doing it to save strangers, well they're a hypocrit. So critics of mild physical means of extracting information as a last resort in crunch time scenarios when an attack is impending, they're either a terrible hypocrit, or do not value human life. It's that simple.