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Senior U.S. Interrogator: Torture Talk Puts Troops at Risk

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Scottish Dragon5/09/2011 5:04:32 pm PDT

re: #6 Killgore Trout

…also I think it’s a really bad idea to base our decisions on what terrorists might think of us.

Chest beating bumper sticker sloganeering.

So you are cool with doing things that, aside for being ineffective and morally repugnant, also serve to further embitter the locals and guarantee that bothers, uncles, and other males will go to the enemy side?

That is exactly how not to win a guerrilla war. It was documented by Galula back in the 1960’s in Algeria…


We want the enemy to stop fighting and and the local population to cooperate…not recruit for them and give them even more propaganda to continue.