The folks that ran the USAF SERE school told me torture works.
Since it isn’t torture, fine.
The interrogation techniques they use are not torture. People are watering down the meaning of torture trying to associate it with interrogation.
Torture works in the real world.
Hmmm, I’m betting that if you told 100 journalists the same secret, that I could get 99 of them to tell me that secret inside of an hour.
When the Gestapo caught someone, the Underground knew that they had only a few hours to save the people the captured person knew.
Of course it works.
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The media, movies and television doesn’t show torture - it shows psychopathic sadism. There IS a difference.
I don’t know... seeing Daniel Craig as James Bond sitting in that bottomless chair... It sure didn’t work on him.
(I still cringe when I watch that)
Torture works.
Now as to whether it works to give you useful information or the guy just tells you what you want to hear, there can be some discussion on that.
But torture works.
Torture works just fine. The liberals just want the world to think we did not succeed.. Communists always want to rewrite the history books to make it so they are great and everyone else sucks.
There is torture and there is advanced ways of interrogation. Sleep deprivation, water boarding, food manipulation are not forms of torture. They are not comfortable but not torture. For torture look to the Japs in WWII, Mafia, North Koreans etc. They know torture. And there is Islam...
There are rare exceptions, but our POW’s in Vietnam told us that under REAL torture, everyone eventually breaks, everyone talks.
Everyone.
Of course it works. People will say anything to make the pain stop and along with the truth is a bunch of BS, lies, and nonsense. Thus it requires analysis and gives them the cover to say “we’ll never know”. But what we do know is that without the EITs we’d never have had the raw material to work with.
If TV programs didn’t involve some type of torture or guns, there would only be ridiculous sitcoms.
I always chuckle when the character points a gun at another. Wants him/her to reveal info. Threatens again and again. Then, gun-character cocks to chamber, as if that is going to make it even more threatening.
You are in the lobby of a 200 room hotel. Upstairs, in some unknown room, your daughter will be raped and killed in the next 15 minutes. I your possession you have one golf club and an accomplice of the rapist.
Who thinks torture wouldn’t work?
McCain complains that you get more bad information than good information from torture - how much good information does it take to stop a terrorist attack and save lives?......