THE PRICE OF PLAYING FAIR
Beautiful Atrocities answers a question that both Democrats and Republicans seem unwilling to ask; what price will we pay for the abandonment of mildly coercive interrogation techniques used against non-combatants?
Whom do the FBI, Defense Secretary, & Joint Chiefs answer to? What party has control of Congress? If Republicans don’t subject liberal Democrats to an aggressive public interrogation & force the issue, they’ll deserve full blame for the next terrorist attack. You can’t have it both ways.
And surrender is contagious. From Ramrod, a soldier in Iraq:
“How the F*CK can we protect convoys from ‘Possible Threats’ if we have our hands tied behind our backs? HORSESHIT. That’s what happens when ‘leaders’ have no Combat time, sit behind a desk & hatch up these Regulations.
“I hope to god I will end up being wrong, BUT, because of the changes put out; soldiers will die. I pray to god I’m wrong, but our chances just went up tenfolds because of the changes.”
We’re not playing tiddlywinks here, we’re at war. And we’re not dealing with your run-of-the-mill enemy soldier. We’re dealing with hardened killers who’d just as soon spit in the eye of an interrogator than give up any valuable information.
And we’re not talking about using the kind of shameless humiliation that was used at Abu Ghraib. We’re talking about mildly coercive “stress techniques” I listed here earlier.
It remains to be seen whether the NY Times and their moonbat allies in Congress are willing to place the lives of American soldiers over discomforting and inconveniencing a bunch of terrorist thugs. One thing’s for sure; the families of servicemen in Iraq are apparently going to lose more sleep over worrying than any of the beheaders, torturers, and homicidal maniacs who fall into our custody.