Liberals, do you honestly believe that if the US does not use waterboarding or other questionable means...?

Question

of obtaining information from terrorist prisoners that Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other terror groups will then treat OUR prisoners in kind? That is, not torture them or behead them.
Do you truly, honestly believe that?

Answer 1

Come on ...

You're asking LOGICAL questions of LIBERALS??

Surely you don't expect a LOGICAL answer??

Answer 2

This is not the first conflict in which the U.S. used interrogation methods to get information. I don't think those methods we used before failed. Torturing these people will go down in our history as a worse shame than the internment of the Japanese during WW II. They also attacked the U.S.

Isn't that the real reason we torture them instead of using our old methods? Isn't that the real reason you want them tortured even though it has been found to result in false information?

Yes they will torture our people regardless of how we treat theirs. So you are saying that we should imitate them or just seek revenge which will mostly result in the people who inflicted this torture to be mental cases when their time is up. Rememer, this is not likely to be the last war. There will be other enemies at some point in time. This is why there was such a thing as the Geneva Convention. Did it mean something or didn't it?

Answer 3

Polaris, so two wrongs make a right? By your logic, everything that you hate about (I'm just guessing here) Bill Clinton is okay then if say, George Bush were to do it.

Come on, it is either right or it is wrong. Do we really want to behave like terrorists?

Many who decry the "left" use the Word of God as a source of their philosophy. There is a Bible verse that says, "Thus as you treat the least among them, so do you treat Me." I always took that to mean that I should behave well, especially toward those who were in a position less powerful than my own. I would have to say a prisoner, however legally held, is still "the least among them."

And yes, I honestly believe that how another behaves shouldn't be the determining factor in my own morality. When a liberal suggests such "situational ethics," the suggestion is widely condemned by the "right."

Answer 4

So, you're condoning torture as revenge against the terrorists? That's the pro-Bush/pro-war motto: If they do it, then we can do it. You guys do it all of the time with Clinton. You say, "Clinton got a bj and lied about it, so Bush should be able to start illegal wars and lie to Americans." BTW, that's how children think.

If anything, our torture is encouraging the enemy to torture our prisoners. Someone has to be the bigger man. Why stupe to their level? Torture has been proven over and over to be a faulty method of collecting intelligence. What if you torture somebody who is actually innocent and really knows nothing? You still will get an answer out of them but it's going to be a fabricated answer.

Do you realize that you're holding the American army to the same standards as Al Qaeda and the Taliban? What is wrong with you?

Answer 5

You know, I am an american, and I know for a fact that this whole thing is really over an oil business deal between Bush and Bin Laden gone terribly wrong. All of these puppet republicans do not know what in the **** they are standing up for. I know for a fact that American men are doing whatever they dang well please to any of the detainees, I know how american men are, I have been married twice. Heck, the american soldiers are just as Bad as Nazis, rummaging through all the neighborhood villages just to detain and torture all of the young men they can find. (Mind you, Middle Eastern Society is ran by only men, so they are crippling the social infastructure within families because the women over there need their men to survive. ) I am disgusted and insulted by what is going on, we are past due for a presidential assasination (We usually have an attempt every twenty years, the last one was SUPPOSED to be in 2000) And you know what? I don't care if there is a CIA agent looking at this right now trying to hunt me down and kill me for speaking against that childish ignorant spoiled brat of a president. All is fair in love and war, and if anyone becomes a prisoner of war, anything can happen to them. I sure as heck do not see any mercy from the taliban or middle eastern soldiers to any white soldier. I've read and heard many documented horror stories.

Answer 6

No.

Do you honestly want the United States of America to model behavior on that of the Taliban or Al Qaeda?

Really? What does that make us? Are you willing to cede the moral high ground to attain information that is questionable at best, or would you rather spend the money on intelligence services?

Answer 7

Why liberals. I know we use water boarding as they have already said they use it! We are not fighting a country and that does not relieve us of our responsibility to go by Treaties, the Geneva Conventions or the US Constitution. Besides, we invaded a country over nothing but the lies of george bush!

Answer 8

No, I believe that Al Qaeda is not the standard by which America measures itself. We are better than that.

Answer 9

Its called 'taking the high road" . Its called that because it is not easy but leads to greatness. As Americans shouldnt we strive for greatness? Not mearly being the biggest baddest kid on the block?

Answer 10

Nobody ever said that, Einstein.

What we have been telling you is that:

1. Torture is ineffective in obtaining useful intelligenge and
2. Torturing prisoners is illegal and has destroyed our credibility as "the good guys".

Too bad for you that you just aren't bright enough to understand plain English.

Answer 11

It's not that I think the terrorists will suddenly start behaving. It's that I think that if we as Americans have to stoop to torture in order to maintain our way of life, then we are no better than the terrorists we claim to hate, yet emulate at every turn.