It truly is preposterous how dangerous political correctness is, especially when it come to national defense.
We have gone from FDR’s internment camps to Truman’s dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Eisenhower’s mass deportations to quibbling over waterboarding.
You cannot win wars by playing patty cake with one arm tied behind your back. The primary purpose of the federal government and our military in wartime is to kill people and destroy enemy targets.
It was sad to watch Gina Haspel have to capitulate to having a “moral compass” yesterday. I wish she had retorted to some of the pious senators about whether they possessed such rectitude.
The WaPo is trying to make this a “poor cancer John” story but the point McInerney was making is a VERY GOOD ONE! The idea that democrats and undocumented democrat McCain ALWAYS put forward is “torture doesn’t work,” but this belies a complete ignorance of spycraft and how high-level intelligence work is run. It’s now a FACT - no matter what Obama or McCain say - that waterboarding KSM and enhanced interrogation on Bin Laden’s courier worked. KSM gave us information not in his answers but BY WHAT LIES HE TOLD INVESTIGATORS - who already knew they were lies - to try to throw them off the trail. In this way, they knew which leads to pursue specifically because he didn’t mention them. The same thing worked with Bin Laden’s courier. The fact that he tried to steer this interrogators AWAY from Pakistan and the complex he was in is what led them to figure out that Bin Laden and his family were, indeed, there.
In spycraft you have to listen to EVERYTHING, especially the lies. I don’t know if McCain was a songbird or not. Some on this board will swear it’s the truth but I DO KNOW that he was not adequately prepared or sophisticated enough to know what NOT to tell the Viet Cong as a trained intelligence professional would have been.
You cannot win wars by playing patty cake with one arm tied behind your back.