Torture: The nightmare scenario
Amidst the discussion of Geneva Conventions, waterboarding, Gitmo, and whether 'Merica really should be the "good guy" on the world stage, I have questions for the faux patriots and torture defenders: Suppose an innocent person ends up in Gitmo? Suppose this very person is subjected to--what's the right-wing PC term?--"advanced interrogation techniques"? See, there's such a thing as mistaken identity. A perfectly innocent man may have the same name as, say, an al Qaeda operative. Or he may bear a close resemblance to said operative. Obviously, these "advanced interrogation techniques" are woefully ineffective in this case. For one thing, the prisoner, being innocent, would have no information to provide in the war on terror. At what point do the interrogators realize that these techniques aren't working? Or that maybe they've got the wrong guy? Imagine an innocent man being taken from his home country and spirited away to Gitmo. ...