Tater wrote:This is not about any political side, or what you would consider as torture like wheather or not you agree with waterboarding. I am asking would you do, what you do consider to be torture If.... you were A" field commander, through general, or the pesident (pertaining to terrorists) or what you would consider terrorist? Lets say it was in theater, and you captured some terrorists( or suspected terrorists) lets say, during an attact. and you had reliable resourses, in which you trusted, that said that were more attacks planned on your soilders for that day. Beings that your soilders' have confidence in your ability to keep them out of harms way, whenever possible, and that they are like your own family, or are closer to you than family. would you torture any of those captured, to try and get info. to help save any of YOUR men and women, that put THEIR life on the line for you everyday.
1)OK lets say you did torture them, and got no info of any kind that was useful, and an attack never occured, how would you be perceived by your soilders, and by public opinion?
2)OK now lets say you did torture them, and got good info. and prevented 100 of your soilders from dying. How would your soilder's preceive you, and what do you think the public will say, or preceive you as?
3)OK Now lets say you didn't torture them, and no further attacks happened to your soilders. obviously your soilder's and the public would preceive you well.......
4)OK now lets say you didn't torture them, even though you trusted your sources, that there was another attack planned that day. You still didn't torture them. and an attack happened that killed 100 of your men and women. And it comes out that you had reliable info. that the (suspected terrorists) that you had in custody had info. that would of saved 100 of your men and women. How would your fellow soilder's preceive you, and would they ever trust you again. because their lives rely on YOUR judgements, and how would the country's public preceive you?
Well Obviously hind sight is 20/20 and it is easy for us to sit in our houses safe and sound, over a thousand miles away, after the facts have come out and place blame and cast judgements, If you put yourself in THEIR shoes at that time what would you have chose... Then lets say You were the President and that scenerio happened here... .... Would you handle the situation differently? If it could be your freinds, neighbors, or son, or daughter that might be at risk because of where they lived or worked...... Then how would your family, freinds, and the general public preceive you in each of the situations?
I don't expect anyone to really anwser every question, it's just something to think about, because it is possible and it is amazing how people will judge the same thing differently all depending on the outcome.
I would just like your thoughts, I just don't feel most people have actually thought about it in a realistic standpoint in our country and I would love the whole nation to consider this Reality before casting judgements...
Me, personally I can't judge anyone for either anwser, and in all honesty I have no idea what I would do, I would love to say if put in that situation, I would NEVER torture anyone, but I don't know if that would be the truth.. WHAT SAY YOU...... I thought about this when watching the all the presidental debates earlier this year, and I just remembered about what question I wanted to send in, but I didn't have a computer....... Sorry for the novel ya.
Dude, get over yourself. I would torture you, to get to the frigging question, at this point! I think most would agree with me.
WTF are you on about? Frankly, if you ever had a point, I no longer care.