bigbull29, you have no idea about me or my family. I did have a close friend that was killed on 9/11 in Tower 2, and another that was badly hurt in WTC 7.
I know they would never want torture to be done in their name.
So you are saying we should torture people for revenge? We should invade a sovereign country, capture their citizens, and exact torture for revenge? That is sick.
Or maybe you believe torture actually works because you know it would work on *you* -- if you were tortured. Well guess what guy, these are people that will fly planes into buildings, I think their religious conviction and beliefs are a bit stronger than yours (remember if they die, they get 71 virgins). Study after study has shown that torturing increases the resolve of the victim and produces loads of misinformation.
So, what is the real purpose of torture?
Torturing is always wrong, unless the greater good of humanity is in question. For example, if terrorists or even "suspected" terrorists withhold information whose non-disclosure could jeopardize the lives of millions of Americans, then torture is justified. Even Buddhists, who promote peace and non-violence like no other religion around the world, believe that torture is acceptable in such a case.
Yes, there probably was a bit of revenge being enacted at Guantanamo Bay at the beginning. That hard evidence, so badly wished for, wasn't showing up on some of the detainees, but reality is reality, and revenge rears its "natural" head. It's wasn't, though, full-fledged revenge, considering that they were all
suspected terrorists
(that's right
, they were "suspected" terrorists). It's not as if they were attempting to torture anyone's 90-year-old grandmother with rosary beads in her hands.
So, then I ask: When does any country turn the other cheek when they are attacked and many of its people die? Is the USA held to an angelic moral standard as compared to other nations like France, Britain, etc... (France's prisons are still horribly inhumane)?
Finally, please stop parading on here like moral zealots. Many of you who are vehemently opposed to torture at Guantanamo Bay have no problem with a woman having a unborn baby violently ripped from her womb. Talk about
unjustified torture!