“According to the Washington Post......”
In other words according to well known certified liars.
When the Patriot Act was passed, I thought it did little to confront the problem, but was great as trading some more liberty for a sense of security. Terrorism is an idea, not a military force. To destroy ideas, you have to attack them in the brains of wanna be terrorists.
Russia’s KGB came closest to what is needed to defeat terrorism. You must make the consequences of acts of terror so swift, devastating, and yes, terrifying that the notion of committing a terrorist act dies in the mind before it can even be expressed. You wanna be a suicide bomber? Does that include what will happen afterwards?
The KGB would wipe out the perpetrator’s family, his neighbors, and his whole damned village. Civilian casualties were part of the methodology. Ruthless, pitiless, eyes-wide-open disaster. That’s how you defeat an idea.
But a nation who recoils from and defines water boarding as torture, may be too compassionate to survive.
Good for President Trump. Kill all terrorists and those who support them.
The guilty, in all cases of criminal activity, including terrorism, should be judged by the standards they themselves employ, in the name of diversity and sensitivity to their cultural standards.