Marty,

As far as I know the police in the US do not and have not used enhanced interrogation on anyone. A drug dealer arrested on some street corner in the US is a world away from an Al Qaeda or ISIS operative.

You cannot project western values onto Al Qaeda, ISIS or the Taliban. They simply think, believe and act in an entirely different way than the west. These are people that think nothing of strapping a bomb to a 5 year old kid and send him/her to blow up whatever. Most of the time that 5 year old is their own kid. Think about that for a minute.  The Taliban has a saying that" women are for babies and little boys are for fun". If you cannot figure out what that means , well lets just say its not good. Blowing up a crowded market and killing many civilians is considered a good day for Al Qaeda. One of Al Qaeda's favorite things is to blow something up and when emergency responders arrive they send in another suicide bomber. Oh yeah and they video all of this and sell the videos.

My point is, these people are vastly different in their worldview then most of the west. You cannot project our western worldview onto them and expect to get results.

 

I'm not sure what you mean by giving up freedoms., Again, I'm pretty sure the civilian police in the US are not waterboarding anyone.

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