I for one edge on the side of caution and do believe it is possible.
But how does this influence your beliefs about Democracy and Constitutional Rights if there are those determine to destroy it?
Again...this relates to waterboarding.
2007-12-13 05:06:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
subwm...
Really...interesting...
was 911 not real?
How about WTC attack 1993
or Kobar Towers?
or Project Bojinka?
or Embassey Bombings in Tanzania/Kenya?
or foiled JFK Airport Plot?
or UK 7/7 attack?
I guess those were just our imagination.
2007-12-13 13:31:37 · update #1
Yes, it is unrealistic for a terrorist group to do so.
2007-12-13 05:09:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it is unrealistic.
Its also unrealistic to assume that the only people we waterboarded knew anything at all, or would know anything at all about the plans of other cells.
You can destroy democracy and constitutional rights just by abrogating them.
There is no executive privilege or power that allows the president to ignore both military law, which specifically prohibits waterboarding, and the Geneva Convention.
None.
There is no excuse.
2007-12-13 13:13:52 · answer #2 · answered by justa 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It will happen eventually, if not in America then somewhere else. There are so many nukes in the world you can't keep your eye on all of them. Also, only a matter of time untill the raw materials can be easily bought on the black market.
My view on how this relates to Freedom vs Security..
Ben Franklin said it best.. "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
2007-12-13 13:15:43 · answer #3 · answered by Todd 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course it's possible!
However, those of us who grew up and lived through the cold war lived every day knowing their were in excess of 1000 Soviet nuclear missiles ready to launch and we didn't abandon our Constitution. We didn't accept torture.
Those of you are so quick to trade Liberty for Security will get neither.
People act as if being a nation of torturers will somehow make us safe. It just makes us a nation of torturers.
The reason there have not been any more attacks in the US has nothing to to with water boarding. Frankly, Osama Bin Laden's plan was to bait the US into an unwinnable war in the Middle East. Bush took the bait and five years later we are hated throughout the world, our Army is gradually being depleted and Al Queda grows bigger and stronger.
Why should Al Queda come to US? We have dutifully acted like fools and come to them, just like they wanted.
In the final analyses, Americans have burnt their Constitution, not Bin Laden.
2007-12-13 13:28:12 · answer #4 · answered by Citizen1984 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like the story line for 24 (not sure what season), there Jack faked the death of this guys kids, using video satellite, a bit more drastic than waterboarding. (I think) It did however seem to have worked...
So does that make it right....
2007-12-13 13:19:12 · answer #5 · answered by jerome2all 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No it's not, there is black market demand for radioactive materials, and they're for sale to the highest bidder. After the fall of communism there were many unaccounted for atomic material missing from Russia. Quite a bit was smuggled out by scientest that hadn't been paid in months. The material is out there, and no one really is sure who has control of it, or where it's going.
2007-12-13 13:13:15 · answer #6 · answered by GIOSTORMUSN 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Considering it has already been done twice,yes. Good thing it was our own people testing the security. How do you rate DHS now?
waterboarding is illegal,John McCain said so.
2007-12-13 14:12:53 · answer #7 · answered by here to help 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. It's not unrealistic. It's also not unrealistic that we'll wake up tomorrow and the sun won't rise. Catch my drift.
(Why do Americans live in perpetual states of terror and fear of vague, unidentified, unidentifiable threats?)
2007-12-13 13:16:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not only is it realistic, it is very likely if we don't close our borders. If waterboarding could save even one life, then I say do it with gusto!
2007-12-13 13:17:15 · answer #9 · answered by jelle 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not at all, do you know how much loose nuke material is floating around out their?
2007-12-13 13:15:41 · answer #10 · answered by wcowell2000 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋