Of course torture work! I would have told the enemy everything if they came with a lighter and told me to put out my dick for example... even BEFORE they started the torture session!
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There's no guarantee you're not lying. So I think we'll burn your whistle.SteikeTa wrote:
Of course torture work! I would have told the enemy everything if they came with a lighter and told me to put out my dick for example... even BEFORE they started the torture session!
Torture is not effective in producing actual valuable intelligence. Mostly it is used to make an example out of the tortured to try and coerce others, essentially "Cooperate with us or this'll happen to you or someone you care about" or as revenge for something the tortured person or those connected to them may have done. Stupid, but it doesn't stop sick people from doing it.BiRdMaN829 wrote:
For all you "torture works" people. I agree to a point. Torture is quite effective in making most people talk. It is not necessarily effective at making people say anything of substance or tactical value.Ajax_the_Great1 wrote:
Your statements are wrong. Torture works. Do you people just argue for the sakes of arguing?
Furthermore, even if torture was effective, that fact alone is a piss poor argument for engaging in it.
They had General Wesley Clark on Democracy Now on Friday...usmarine2007 wrote:
By one persons opinion? If it truly didn't work, why does damn near every country do some form of it?LawJik wrote:
I supported my statements. GG
(Video Link)
"AMY GOODMAN: I wanted to ask you what you think of the dean of West Point, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, together with a military interrogator named Tony Lagouranis and the group Human Rights First, going to the heads of the program 24, very popular hit show on FOX, to tell them that what they're doing on this program, glorifying torture, is inspiring young men and women to go to Iraq and torture soldiers there, and to stop it?
GEN. WESLEY CLARK: And not only that, but it doesn't work. Yeah, Pat Finnegan is one of my heroes. "
General Wesley Clark says, torture doesn't work. The retired four-star general, he was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the Kosovo War. In 2004 he unsuccessfully ran for the Democratic presidential nomination.
I guess two real life opinions from relevant sources, one of a real military interrogators, and another of a retired 4 star general should be more than enough to prove that torture does not work in the real world like its does in the movies.
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