The myth is that torture doesn't work. And her own commie buddies use it regularly. To good effect, I might add.
I'd like to know exactly how she concluded torture does not work. I'm sure if she asked a bunch of jihadis about it they would say that torture doesn't work. It's like asking a bunch of murderers if the death penalty works. Of course they'll say no.
Thistlethwank. Man you just cannot make a name like that up.,
You are quite correct. The notion that “torture doesn’t work” flies in the face of thousands of years of human experience.
There are limitations to its efficacy, but that’s true of any other possible interrogation methods. Most critically, confessions of wrongdoing by a torture victim are not reliable. People, understandably, will say anything they think the torturer wants to hear to make it stop.
This argument is a non-starter for the anti-torture group. They would be much better served by sticking with “we shouldn’t do torture” because it’s “always wrong.” An argument I find more than a little convincing.
Although since the vast majority of them are moral relativists, this would seem to create an inherent contradiction in their position. But such never seems to bother them.