highwaystar101 said:
A. It's only like 1% of islamic people that terrorise people. B. If you want to punish someone for torturing and killing people, don't punish them by torturing them and simulating death. It's hypocritical, use another method that shows you can take the high road. |
A. Flogging is allowed in much more then 1% of the Islamic world. Compare waterboarding to flogging.
B. Waterboarding is not a punishment. It is an interogation technique. An effective one that can save lives.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
