Hmmm. Food for good thought.
I equate this "interrogation detainment" to pussy-footing around with the problem. That is really what irritates me with the whole thing. Maybe my morals have a loose screw, but I do find torture of bound prisoners to be immoral, yet I fully believe that total victory on the battlefield to be fully justified and completely moral. We don't need little parcels of coerced information to wage a real war.
My wife picked my screen moniker because she knows me. ;-D
That may well be why I have a different view regarding interrogation techniques. I think we can potentially save a lot of lives by gleaning information from detainees. If we did it to every Abdul Six Pack we picked up just for fun I wouldn't support that. But we haven't. We pick on the guys we think have something to tell us. KSM actually bragged that he knew something else was coming. By doing that he created the karma to have us get it out of him IMO. Even if it had been a lie.
I happen to agree with you that we shouldn't be pussy footing around. To blazes with nation building. On that I am right behind you and stand squarely on my own views of compassion to support it. To stop a man from killing, who is doing it out of anger and ignorance, is to prevent him from creating horrible karma for himself. If you have to kill him to stop him it is still a compassionate act.
My wife picked my screen moniker because she knows me. ;-D
LOL I'd hate to see what my screen name would be if someone else picked it.