[TUF]Catbox wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
Lotta_Drool wrote:
Well it is war. You can say killing is bad and we kill so how are we any better than our enemy? Obviously we will lose if we fight lead bullets with neft darts.
Torture is the same way. If your enemy is employing tactics that will allow them to win and you are not willing too do the same you will lose. It all comes down to WHY you do what you do.
There are not two equal sides fighting this war. Either the US is good and the Terrorist are bad and you support killing and torturing the bad guys to save the good guys or you feel the Terrorists are good and the US bad and it is ok for the terrorist to torture and kill people to win. The US isn't randomly torturing people or doing it for the hell of it. It is a Nessesity to protect civilians and soldiers lives and thus win the war on terrorism. This US bad and Terrorist bad idea the liberals would have you believe is B.S. otherwise you would see more people choosing to move to terrorist controlled parts of the world vs the USA.
And the main assumption you're making here is that everyone detained at Gitmo is guilty. That's already proven to be untrue. If you start torturing innocent people, you are a terrorist yourself.
if there are innocent guys there... than why wont any country take them back... not even their own country?
It's going to be a hoot when they try to release them in the US... you wanna see some nimby action then...lol
Hey, I agree that the situation is pretty fucked up. I think the refusal of these countries taking back these people has more to do with their own problems than of actual guilt.
Think about this. Let's say the U.K. was detaining a bunch of Americans for some alleged terrorist activity involving the IRA. They had some Gitmo-style camp where these Americans were being tortured, and after a year or two, some of them were declared innocent. If, at that point, America still didn't take the innocent ones back, that would imply that America really didn't give a shit about their people abroad.
That's generally my take on this. It's not a flaw on the part of these detainees that their home countries won't take them back -- it's a flaw on the part of these foreign governments. Many of these people are coming from countries with very shady governments that don't really give a shit about human rights, so they'd rather refuse entry of these people than take them back even if the chances of finding them guilty of something is usually pretty slim.
In short, they'd rather deny the rights of their own people than risk letting in an alleged terrorist.