jreeves
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Yes because I think obtaining pertinent information through various tools is essential. Waterboarding vs. loss of lives on 9/11 or beheading.....I'll take waterboardingWhich experts?
You will probably find experts on both sides of this argument. Obama has better intel on this than you or I, so I will go along with him until proven wrong.
We lived this long with formally making torture part of our culture why do we need to start now. Please don't come back with "everything changed after 9-11." It didn't.
Only the head of the intelligence agency that provides 90% of the information that our country uses to protect itself. Things did change after 9/11, our country was never attacked to that magnitude on our soil. AQ was a threat before 9/11 but we didn't have a clue. Much like we won't have a clue when they will strike again, due to a few strokes of a pen.
Hopefully, the "war on terror" will end, because it was an atrocious and inaccurate phrase to describe the current state of anti-terrorism efforts. However, if you think that we have been set back 8 years and lose all of our intelligence capability because Obama has rejected harsh interrogation techniques (read "torture"), then... well... there is no then, that is just silly.