... handing them one on a silver platter ...
We do that for these people by merely existing. The idea that the waterboarding issue is giving them
more of a reason is laughable. Once a person is willing to purposely mass muder innocents who have no bearing on the actual conflict while purposely not attacking the actual armed enemies DO NOT NEED ANY MORE REASON, they are allready beyond any reason. They do it because the sky is blue, or the sun rose in the east or because they are so full of hate concerning something they dont even understand they gladly kill whomever is handy.
Also, I do agree that the USA should have taken the moral high-ground on torture, but I am not gonna sit here and scream my anger. The people screaming the loudest over this arent the muslim fanatics, but the fanatics in the USA who dont even understand the issues at hand and are the blindly manipulated hand of political maneuvering. The water-boarding issue is the tree that made people forget the forest around them is on fire..............ug poor analogy but I think my point gets across.
Lastly, Why the personal attack directed towards me? I was only responding to the underlying idea permeating too much of this worldwide debate that the prisoners are innocent victems. They are not. They are vile things who willingly kill innocents for the priest/mullah who told them to.
Now, I know someone is going to try to make a case for the USA killing civilians and thats CRAP. Never in the entire history of armed conflict has a military gone so far out of its way to avoid civilian casualties. Thats the entire reason we have smart weapons. Its the entire reason Afganistan/Iran/Iraq/Syria arent the worlds largest exporter of glowing sand. Its the entire reason why the Allied troops have such a problem in Iraq, because they wont just broadsword the enemy. You could even make a case that MORE civilians area dead in Iraq because we didnt use much stronger measures and therefore the
war occupation dragged on longer than it needed to. The enemy certainly didnt care who it killed, just as long as people died and it made the news so political hounds in other countries can whine and yelp about how terrible the allies are.
(the following is not directed at anyone in particular, but instead I am speaking in general terms)
It doesnt matter if you like it or not, if you supported it or not, if you protested it or not, if you took action to change the political atmosphere or not, if you apologized for it or not......... fanatical terrorists dont give a f***. They just want you dead, period. All the reasons you ascribe to them, sympathy you have for them, apologies you make for them are moot to them unless it lets them get closer for the kill. If you think the USA shouldnt be torturing, then say so in your vote and move on back to the front lines, cuz the war isnt paused while you spiral in plastic self-righteous outrage.
note: in no way did i purposely try to sound like Kyle Reese in that last paragraph but.......lol