[OneWingedShark]

Did you not get the point?...... 9/11 was way more than sufficient for our men to do whatever was needed, no mater how brutal it might be, to obtain information from these people.

So, the They did something terrible, so that justifies our doing something terrible line of reasoning?

Anything our men would do to those who orchestrated 9/11 could not be compared to the suffering/torture those people endured in those flaming towers.
I have no problem with whatever mean they use if it’s to prevent American people from these atrocities and deaths...and that goes for today as well.

I'm not saying that they don't deserve retribution; but it doesn't justify turning ourselves into monsters.
IOW, the existence of evil or injustice does not justify further evils or injustices.

You can call them “unlawful combatants” or any other flowery name to be politically or legally correct...they were and are brutal dastardly murders of the worst kind....capable of killing on notice without batting an eye.

And who is saying they weren't?

[caww]

...."They did something terrible, so that justifies our doing something terrible line of reasoning?... the existence of evil or injustice does not justify further evils or injustices".....