re: #744 Gus 802

True. However, I don’t see much comparison between WWII and now.

Here, let me show you. That was the absolute high mark on the reservoir of international good will accumulated by the US over decades since WWII. Most of that goodwill burned up in a few short years in large part because our leadership began to actively undermine those principles we had always stood for.

While we didn’t torture or water board then we are not exactly fire bombing urban areas for weeks at a time as we did then. If we apply today’s standard then it couldn’t done which is thus like applying those standards to today.

Ah, I see, the fact that indiscriminate aerial slaughter is not particularly conducive towards defeating a modern insurgency allows some kind of pass on previously established national principles?

re: #798 Dark_Falcon

And it worked. If you threw one prisoner out of a helicopter, the others because much more willing to talk. Extreme torture does not work, but instilling terror does work.

Apparently Ugandan witch doctors say the same thing about child sacrifice producing tangible benefits, both assertions seem equally unlikely to me.