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- You can't keep your account open when you detain people indefinitely and torture them. You just don't have enough chips to keep it open. |
We've been down this road several times, but I am amazed that you are equating the waterboarding of three dangerous terrorists to the Mexican torture: The techniques included beatings, suffocation with plastic bags, electric shocks, the insertion of needles under suspects’ finger nails, water torture, and other abuses.
I guess the millions of lives we've saved and the demcracies we've helped foster go by the wayside.
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Ah, but they have nukes, that's the point. We walked into Iraq and if they wanted to they could walk into Sweden.
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That's why we continue to develop the missle defense shield and why the Russians are so against/afraid of it. And they would be walking into a massacre if they tried to walk into Sweden.
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If you have the biggest stick and in a position of strength you're of the opinion that you need not speak softly?
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Speaking softly IMO is not imposing our will by military might on other countries....unless absolutely necessary (see LeMay doctrine). Speaking softly is giving diplomacy a chance, but understanding that diplomacy doesn't work when dealing with dictators/thugs/inherently evil people.