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Originally Posted by deacon blues
How can one denounce enhanced interrogations like water boarding (calling it torture) and support Obama's campaign of drone killings? I support both enhanced interrogations and drone killings. One exception I would make is that the drone killings might cause us to miss important intel because we don't apprehend the terrorist and interrogate him. But isn't it a bit hypocritical to decry enhanced interrogations but support drones?
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I think you are mixing apples and oranges.
There isn't much suffering in drone killing and usually when drones are used, it is not to get intel from perpetrators-- it is to kill perpetrators.
The real debate is whether intel gleaned from waterboarding and other torture methods is even good intel in the first place. Some say it is, some say it isn't.
It was my combat experience that for we were more succesful in a softer approach, once the bad guys were captured and not killed.
Torturing twisted people often only solidifies their resolve and commitment to their twisted value system that tells them that after they have suffer and even die for allah's sake, they will be blessed in eternity with relations with many virgins!
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