Sunday, August 07, 2005

Don't tie our hands

In this opinion piece, there is a push on in Congress to limit interrogation methods of suspected terrorists to an Army Field Manual on the subject, something the terrorists are well acquainted with, and receive training to counter.

The Army Field Manual on interrogation is a good place to start, but if terrorists are receiving training on how to counter those interrogation methods - which they are - and our interrogators are restricted from using other methods to obtain information, this could very well cost people their lives! Our interrogators must be allowed to change interrogation techniques as the situation warrants!

This is another example of PCism - be nice to those poor people, even though they misguidedly want to kill (all of) us! - based on "good intentions".

How does that old saying go? "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions."? Yeah, I think that's right.

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