Quote Originally Posted by Hlleonard View Post
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I just don't believe we have to resort to the same things that we hate in others to get to where we want to go... We look at countries that do these things then look at ourselves and I believe we are a better country for being less anxious to stoop the their level... I have absolutely no problem with killing our enemies and I believe we would put our service men and women at greater risk in trying to capture them and I don't believe it is necessary to resort to torture to protect our country, we have done a pretty good job up until now and I believe we can continue to do so in the future.
Man I have to say your being naive thinking we haven't done some atrocious things in war....it's war. The millions of men and women who have fought for the USA can't be watched all the time but we get glimpses of things and if you get glimpses your only seeing a small percentage.....but what is torture? Aggressive interrogation techniques? Who defines it? Is a picture posing with captives torture? Waterboarding?
As humans we all get emotional and stress will do some things to you that otherwise never comes out. Look at the Vietnam war, WWII and the more recent wars.
I don't think every soldier tortures and not every instance requires it but when it's time to torture to get info from prisoner or take care of business I say do it and move on. The potus was against it and all this other drivel about Gitmo and terrorist being tortured. McCain even took the approach of no torture but it's just my opinion that they are wrong. It doesn't mean I don't respect McCain I just don't agree with him. Now the potus....I respect next to nothing about him. Haha breaking news huh?