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RE: Declassified Cables Show CIA Director Gina Haspel Directly Oversaw Torture
Then what is the answer? You can't be soft on them either as they will only take advantage and see this as a weakness.
Then what is the answer? You can't be soft on them either as they will only take advantage and see this as a weakness.
You've missed the point of who "them" actually is. Who is "trying to take advantage" ? The Iraqi's that had nothing to do with 911 ? The Saudi, US and Israeli backed moderate headchoppers in Syria ? Who exactly are the bad guys ?
Torture is also an extremely ineffective method of extracting information from a prisoner, (and that's making the assumption that the prisoner even knows any worthwhile information) with victims confessing to anything just to make the pain stop.