tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post8265126651026425853..comments2024-03-28T06:18:11.024-04:00Comments on Daffey Thoughts: Liberals, Pope Francis and the Torture Debate David Griffeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-16213803364135867372015-09-05T18:25:27.414-04:002015-09-05T18:25:27.414-04:00I don't know that it has been a threat to our ...I don't know that it has been a threat to our enemies. I think if there was some sort of universal 'gee, you've really pissed off the US, now watch out' from the world and our own media, then possibly. But basically our media and the world have almost joined with the terrorist movement and said, "that is horrible that the US has done this, you're absolutely right to kick up the killings and attacks!" So it has fueled their fire and left us with scant few allies. Perhaps that comes from doing something we have always declared to be an evil. Which is why I think taking the higher road - as we have in the past, at least officially - is the better way. David Griffeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06629314279592541401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6226269873507053740.post-36672747441767697072015-09-01T21:23:54.467-04:002015-09-01T21:23:54.467-04:00Here's my brief thing on the torture debate.
...Here's my brief thing on the torture debate.<br /><br />Maybe I'm mistaken since I'll admit a lot of this stuff I learned from the show "Burn Notice" but it had several interrogation scenes, and one thing repeatedly pointed out was that it was more psychological than physical. So for example, in one scene one of the good guys takes out a knife, and cuts HIMSELF, not the target. The explanation? "If that's what you're willing to do to yourself, you get the suspect panicking over what you'll do to him." Torture in the show becomes far more about <i>threatening</i> it than ever actually <i>doing</i> it.<br /><br />So my opinion is always: Do I want us torturing? As a rule, no. But I want our ENEMIES convinced that we will. Because if it becomes generally known that we can't and won't touch them, what then? How do the anti-torture people propose we get information out of the enemy? Ask nicely?<br /><br />I admit, I don't really know how to get a nation-wide acting gig going but if it was up to me, I would trumpet from shore to shore that we put MIT graduates on calculating out the greatest amount and variety of pain we can do to a person.<br /><br />Oh I wouldn't do it. But I want our enemies to be convinced that we're crazy, and there's no telling what we'll do. Because I'll guarantee you that whatever their imaginations come up with will probably be better than anything we actually could.Nate Winchesterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00630873800235819300noreply@blogger.com