Monday, December 05, 2016
46% of Americans are Heartless Fools
That is the percentage of people who believe that there any value in torture. Torture is a war crime made illegal by several treaties and laws of the United States. And according to trained interrogators, torture is worthless and ruins any information that the victim may have had.
The findings on torture were among the starkest. Among Americans, 46 percent said torture could be used to obtain information from an enemy combatant, while 30 percent disagreed and the rest said they did not know. On a more general question, one in three said torture was “part of war,” just over half called it “wrong,” and the rest said they did not know or preferred not to answer.It seems that you need to let your country be run by people like Dick Cheney and Bugsy Netanyahu to think torture will get you anything.
Torture is a war crime, according to international law. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said recently that she had reasonable grounds to open an investigation into allegations of torture by American forces in Afghanistan.
On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump endorsed waterboarding, claiming that “it works.” He has suggested a shift in thinking since his election, saying that his nominee for defense secretary, Gen. James N. Mattis, believes there are more effective tactics for extracting important information from detainees.
In the survey, only Israelis, Palestinians and Nigerians seemed to endorse torture as enthusiastically as Americans. In Afghanistan, by contrast, 83 percent of those surveyed said torture was wrong; in Colombia, that number was 85 percent.
Worldwide, two-thirds of those surveyed said torture was wrong, though on the more specific question of whether it could be used to extract information from an enemy fighter, just under half said it was wrong.
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Really wish somebody, anybody, had asked The Donald why he thinks it works. Back when C Plus Augustus was still in charge the examples they gave all turned out to be lies, and pretty easily at that. Have they come out with any new examples of how they know it works? No, sorry, KSM did not give up the name of the messenger to Osama Bin Laden when he was waterboarded 183 times in one month because Alfreda Frances Bitkowski had a hard-on for him.
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