Zander
Platinum Member
I think enhanced interrogation techniques should be used sparingly, and only on high value operatives.There are different forms of torture, some of which never incur physical damage or pain.I am totally against torture.
Waterboarding is not torture. Sleep deprivation is not torture. Forcing detainees to listen to Lady Gaga music 24/7 is not torture (it just feels like it!)
Torture is pulling out fingernails, maiming, cutting off limbs, crushing testicles, etc...
How would you like to be locked in a fluorescent lighted, white painted cell for 24 hours a day with a steel cot to lie on, a toilet and a sink. Nothing else. Nothing to read. No human contact. The only break in the monotony being a bowl of plain oatmeal delivered through a slot twice a day without even a spoon. How long do you think you would last before going mad and begging to be physically tortured instead?
This is what was done to Jose Padilla and last I heard he's become a vegetable. I believe the same thing is being done to Bradley Manning and I've heard the practice is commonplace at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
My question is not whether or not such a practice should be employed but who should be subjected to it?
PS- I don't think what you described is torture. It is more like solitary confinement in jail. I have very little compassion for terrorists. If Padilla is now a vegetable we are a better world for it.