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Originally Posted by jaguar
If you think the death of Osama would end this 'war', you're at most half as smart as I thought you were. The very nature of what's going on not to mention asymmeterical war in general means that torture is at best, counterproductive and lets not mince words, what goes on in that place is state-sanctioned torture plain and simple, just as bad as Saddam's or Kim's or Pinochet's torture.
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I don't think that the war will be over anytime soon much less when Osama is neutralized. I actually think all hell is going to break loose once we capture him and hope we have the good sense to make him "disappear" rather than have him do the perp walk. The last thing we need to do is make a martyr out of our enemy's hero. I was giving an example that if someone did know where he was than he wasn't going home until he told his captors where he was.
I later said that when the war is over, we can all go home.
But, you didn't address my question: what would you do if you were in charge of managing these people and your loyalty (try not to choke) was to the people of the United States. What do you think John Kerry would do had he been elected. At some point, all this criticism needs to evolve into an alternative and the downside of the alternatives needs to be ackknowledged.