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Interesting Editorial

by on April 22, 2009 in Counterinsurgency

From today’s Washington Post, “America will be better off, in the long run, for Obama’s decision to expose the past practice of torture and ban its future use. But meanwhile, the country is fighting a war, and it needs to take care that the sunlight of exposure doesn’t blind its shadow warriors.”

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  1. Judge says:
    April 22, 2009 at 9:47 am

    It’s sad when people no longer know what ‘torture’ is. Hell, we’ve got fraternities in the US that haze worse than we gave the ragheads.

    If someone wants to know what torture is, they need to read about how our enemies treat our prisoners – just because they are Americans.

    The interrogators performed a valuable service and saved 1000′s of lives – just by making the terrorists uncomfortable. For that, my hats off to them.

  2. possum says:
    April 22, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Waterboarding came after my time but I was exposed to most of the other interrogation techniques first in counter-insurgency and then in escape and evasion. Thousands of our guys have gone thru these. It seems simple to me. Anything our own guys get in training shouldn’t be too much for anyone from whom we need information.

  3. LtCol P says:
    April 22, 2009 at 4:46 pm

    “America will be better off, in the long run…” I beg to differ. Everything in that op-ed says A BIG MISTAKE WAS MADE, but the good little leftist can’t bring himself to say it in the end.

  4. Seg says:
    April 22, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    Check this out. I watched a bit of O’Reilly tonight and little Dicky Morris was on and he said that a tradition at the Virginia Military Institute for years was waterboarding and Gen. Marshall had been waterboarding. I need a fact check on this one. I know I’m getting old but I don’t remember waterboarding.

  5. Seg says:
    April 22, 2009 at 9:01 pm

    Sorry, I meant Gen. Marshall was waterboarded. As for waterboarding and ‘torture’, it amazes me that those on the left are allowed to make up their own definitions for anything. They just throw these abstract accusations out there that they can’t back up with either facts or the definition written in law. Once they define waterboarding as ‘torture’, they will start defining pretty much everything as torture. Then when another huge catastrophic event happens a la 911 and it turns out these definitions implemented in law hindered the prevention of such an event, they will act like they had nothing to do with this. They will weep, be sad, and play victim. They won’t understand on how nice and apologetic we were to people, yet they still attacked us. Pathetic.

  6. Townie 76 says:
    April 23, 2009 at 11:16 am

    Seg,

    Regarding your comment by Dick Morris on Bill O’Reilly, I have never heard that, nor have I ever heard of anything like that. I do know that in Pogues biography of Marshall, Vol I, The Education of a General, that there is a reference to Marshall being strained in a squatting position over a bayonet.

    What was acceptable at VMI in Marshall’s day or even my day at VMI would probably cause a Cadet to get a number 1 or worse today.

    Hank Foresman