Quote Originally Posted by keda
I believe they do, must absolutely continue targeting planes and airports, if only rarely, simply to ensure that Western nations devote enormous resources towards
...fighting unwinnable wars in unrelated countries?


Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
The money quote actually reads: "Fifty-eight percent (58%) of U.S. voters say waterboarding and other aggressive interrogation techniques should be used to gain information from the terrorist who attempted to bomb an airliner on Christmas Day."
Because intel derived from torture is so reliable right?

The U.S. has considered waterbording to be illegal since 1898 "As far back as the U.S. occupation of the Philippines after the 1898 Spanish-American War, U.S. soldiers were court-martialed for using the "water cure" to question Filipino guerrillas."

Also the U.S. government tried, convicted, and executed Japanese officers for war crimes

"Leading members of Japan's military and government elite were charged, among their many other crimes, with torturing Allied military personnel and civilians. The principal proof upon which their torture convictions were based was conduct that we would now call waterboarding."

Water boarding was designated as illegal by U.S. generals in Vietnam 40 years ago. A photograph that appeared in The Washington Post of a U.S. soldier involved in water boarding a North Vietnamese prisoner in 1968 led to that soldier's severe punishment.

"The soldier who participated in water torture in January 1968 was court-martialed within one month after the photos appeared in The Washington Post, and he was drummed out of the Army," recounted Darius Rejali, a political science professor at Reed College.

The Government of the U.S. has tried, and convicted both U.S. and foreign solders for waterbording.