Funk Babblings

Here's another perspective to your perspective.

The problem of torture is three-fold:
1) It generally does not reveal useful information. I think there is a window of about three days, and then whatever the captive knows becomes outdated.

2)Who gets tortured? There is no guarantee that only bona fide terrorists will suffer. Remember, the whole premise here is guilty until proven innocent. More likely it will be an innocent Iraqi farmer minding his own business, in his own country; or random American citizens. Are you willing to be tortured by our government on the off chance that you might be a terrorist who is planning something within the next 24 hours? I'm not; but I'm afraid that's the direction this country is heading.

3) Torture creates a desire for vengeance. Innocent people who are tortured, or their parents or children, may then become terrorists, because of how they or their families have suffered.

I'm not saying we shouldn't do anything to keep safe; we just need to do something that works, not that makes things worse.

As for the Clinton administration, it tried to go after Al Quaida, but the
Republicans spearheading the impeachment said that Al Quaida was no threat, and that Clinton was just trying to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky by starting a war in Africa and the Middle East. If they had been less partisan, perhaps Al Quaida would have been stopped in its tracks a long time ago. You can read more about it here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/23/wag.dog/

As I said, it's just my opinion.