Can someone please explain to me how the Obama government knows we were made "less safe" because we used waterboarding? How do they KNOW it was a recruiting technique? Because those trustworthy Al Qaeda guys said so?
Maybe I'm nuts, but I'm guessing people who want to attack you without risk of suffering any discomfort if they're captured would tell you that the methods you use are a reason they attack you! So you stop using those methods and yay for them! Now they get to recruit saying "Don't worry, you can kill the infidel and nothing worse than being subjected to a few hours of the Barney theme song will happen to you!"
And do we honestly believe they will treat our people better because we're going to treat their people better? REALLY?
You know what I want to see released? I want to see the memos released showing who in the Congress was briefed on the fact that these techniques were deemed legal, and when they knew, and what they said. I want to see who said nothing then or approved of it as well, who might now be changing their tune? Don't we have a right to know this TOO?
I see no upside to any of this. None. And now they say we're safer? SAFER HOW? Al Qaeda has not been able to successfully attack us in 8 years. How much safer can you get than THAT? I really don't care if AQ is able to recruit thousands more, as long as we can stop them from doing what they want to do--either by killing or capturing them--that's really all that matters, and I don't think for one second that there's anything we can do that would cause the would-be terrorist to say "Oh, well, those people don't torture, they're cool, I'm going to cancel my reservation at camp Behead-An-Infidel."
Please. Spare me.
Posted by insomnomaniac at April 19, 2009 6:51 PM | TrackBack