Posted on 12/12/2014 7:47:39 AM PST by Kaslin
Only if done in public at prime time.
If there was no other way of obtaining critically important information, I would reluctantly agree to his mistreatment. Which, as I understand it, was considerably less aggressive than it could have been.
But that’s a quite different moral position than “there should be no restrictions at all on how we treat our captives.”
In some of the posts on this thread there also seems to be a conflation of the concepts of torture as retribution or punishment and torture to obtain critical intelligence.
Where on the spectrum of pain or bodily damage would you draw the line? Or do you have a line?
Could the above be worse than listening to Hillary or Yoko Ono?
Thanks. I think you’ve made your position clear. Others can now draw their own conclusions about your moral character.
I really can’t get over how much he looks like John Belushi on a bender.
And yours.
PS: You never answered my question in post 17. Care to now? BWhahahahaha.
Who'd like to see him raped by ten gorillas on PPV?
Yes, it was immoral. Torture is always immoral.
Sometimes a lesser immoral act is necessary to prevent a greater one. Lesser of two weevils and all that.
But that an evil is lesser does not make it un-evil.
War, for example, is by definition evil. Yet sometimes it is necessary to prevent greater evil. But that simply does not ever make it good.
Wow, just wow. Calling the CIA agents immoral? What site are you on? Maybe the DU might suit you better....
We don’t need to stoop all the way to their level. Though I do admit I wouldn’t really shed a tear if they did go full medieval on them.
Considering alternatives, water boarding and firing squads is plenty humane enough for the likes of these people.
Government actions are never to be questioned or called immoral? What site are you on?
In this case it isn't really a question of morality so your premise is flawed.
So who elected you the arbiter of morality?
Back at ya.
Jews and Kulaks were just living their lives and posed no threat to anyone or anything; KSM, not so much. I don't see how you can make any moral comparison between the treatment of Jews and Kulaks with that of al-Qaeda operatives.
Making someone “uncomfortable” or “disoriented” IS NOT TORTURE!
It’s that simple.
Yep. The entire water boarding thing is a rope-a-dope by the anti ‘torture’ people. The terrorists KNOW they are gonna survive water boarding. It is NOT pleasant for sure but they know they are gonna survive it to live another day. (That cattle prod pic has been well debunked as not Chris Stevens though).
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