Why has America become a nation that tortures?

Answer 1

Because your constitution has been hijacked, while you were sleeping, by a bunch of cheap, artless, uncultured, dishonorable, worthless, lying, sociopathic scumbags!
You might as well have the Mafia in power right now.They would probably behave slightly more honourably toward your dead and injured soldiers and their families.

Answer 2

Because when you fight an enemy that is looking for a way to inflict massive casualties, including women and children, and has no fear of attaining and using biological and nuclear weapons, you have to be able to garner as much information in as brief a period of time as possible. From several sources, as reported in the news over the last year, torture has some benefits and works. When time is of the essence, I choose torture rather than a polite question and answer session. AND PLEASE, stop with the argument that our use of torture will eventually lead to our enemies using it on American POWS. It was used rather liberally on our prisoners by Germany, and Japan in WWII, North Korea and China in the Korea conflict, North Vietnam in the Vietnam War, and by Iraq in the first Gulf War. Besides, where are all those American prisoners captured in Iraq? I believe they've all turned up dead, killed by torture. Two wrongs do not make a right, but at least I can sleep better knowing my government will pull out all the stops to keep me safe when necessary.

Answer 3

When they interrogate women they sometimes rape them. How can you call this torture?
Women just fall in love with the interrogators and tell them the truth.

P.O. By the way the torture is especially awesome when the person being tortured does not know the truth the interrogators want to get from him.

Answer 4

It's a known fact we've tortured at least since WWII and over the entire cold war. I'm sure there was torture of our own people during the Civil War. This is nothing new. The phrase "All's Fair in Love and War" comes to mind.

Answer 5

At the moment i get the impression that America is a fascist country in the guise of a democracy.

I really don't understand why the "best country in the world" will do this, surly they are smart enough to realize that torture does not work.

Answer 6

Oh America is a nambi pambi when it comes to torture. You have to get down and dirty to win this war against terrorism. Its the only way because the people you are fighting against think your weak and ineffective if you do anything else ie: take the high road. We need to go in, do what has to be done by any means and then get out. At the end of the day its who won not how they won that people remember. The terrorist know this and are doing just that. We, unfortunately have to fight fire with fire. Do you think the British thought the Americans were fighting fair in the Revolutionary War. There were rules of war then to, and Americans weren't playing fair. Imagine using rocks, trees and bushes as cover to fight. Was that terrorism? Maybe to the British it might have been. America proved you had to be flexible and play dirty when you had to to win. It needs to be done again to win. Your enemy, particularly the ones in the Middle East, only respect strength and doing what has to be done.

Answer 7

I don't believe that we have 'become' anything. I think we have been using techniques to get answers and information from people who do not respond to conventional ways. Either we want national security or we don't. People that are terrorists just don't hand over information. It's the fact that the media thinks that they need to know everything that this has gotten out of hand. Otherwise, we are gathering intelligence so you can keep posting questions and we can live with some sense of security and freedom in this country.

Answer 8

Torture has always been used. It is effective and necessary. It has only been lately that stupid liberals would rather a criminal win rather than his head get wet. What would you do if your loved one were taken and you had the one responsible tied up in front of you?

Answer 9

Our military and intelligence forces do what they have to to acquire knowledge of the enemy. The Geneva Conventions rules do not apply at Gitmo! We are not at war with a country, but with an organization of terrorists. No declared war no rules!

Answer 10

I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us.