what is torture

[Bjorn]

I find it interesting that no one has mentioned that the use of "questionable" and potentially cruel techniques for interogation are quite detrimental to the psychological wellbeing of the person carying out as well as to the person on the reciving end.

After using said "enhanced interogation techniques" on prisoners for a while I think it would be quite common for the person using them not to start sliding down his or her sloping moral plane towards behaviours that are even more unseemly. This risk would also most likely be increased under stressful circumstances like beeing in combat conditions for an extended piece of time.

Use of "torture" or other "atrocities" is also in general quite harmfull to the morale of the organisation carying it out.

/Bjorn

If I had a son, daughter, ,loved one, kidnapped and was able to apprehend one of the accomplices, I would do everything in my power, short of killing him(because then hes of no use) to find out where they took said loved ones. Torture, you better believe it. I have to believe the majority of posters on this site if confronted with that situation would do the same. Torture or the threat of it has to be left on the table when interrogating believed terrorists. I dont think most Americans realize that Al quada, etc, if giving the opportunity would walk into your home and slice your throat, your newborns throat, everyones throat. We cant sit back and take a reactive position, we have to become proactive in these matters.

What if we caught a terrorist who we believed had info. on a dirty, nuclear, bomb on its way to America. Do we do nothing and hope for the best?? The stakes are to high my friends. The protection of American lives are paramount.