re: #611 Olsonist

This is how the real pros do it. It doesn’t make for good television but it works.

If you think that waterboarding was effective then hell, we should have been waterboarding everybody. Get caught planting an IED? Get waterboarded cuz we know that you’ll talk.

Except that the intelligence professionals actually wanted to get real information and save lives. So instead waterboarding was saved for a few high profile types like KSM and then YOU got to know about it.

That’s a political act.

What is your proof that it was a political act? That is a very strong allegation, and it must be backed up.

Also, negotiation and compromise are impossible with hard-core members of Al Qaeda. They think they are on a Mission From God and cannot be reasoned with. It is a good tactic when dealing with some lower ranking members or those who joined up for money, but it is useless against the truly committed.