re: #32 Rightwingconspirator

It’s interesting to note how we choose not to torture. Ethics and a lack of effectiveness. And I fully agree we as America or her allies-must not torture.

But when the shoe is on the other foot, as in if/when an important American Officer gets captured, we assume it will in fact happen, and it will work.

No, you’re not getting it either. We know that it will happen, and that it will ‘work’ in that some of the stuff our guys will say will be accurate intel.

That doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be more effective for the enemy to also use the tactics of conciliation and friendship. Those would still be more effective interrogation techniques.

Torture ‘works’. It works for getting false confessions along with true ones, with getting made-up intel along with real stuff.