I Really Couldn't Have Put It Better Myself
What do you think of Andy's thought?
Helmet tip to the enigmatic Andy Malone.
I've been having a running debate over at Catholic Answers on a thread entitled "So That's a Waterboarding, Huh?". To say that it's been interesting would be an understatement of Biblical proportions.
And to keep things in perspective, many moons ago, I posted for following in regards to extracting information from terrorists;
I gotta be honest, to ensure another 9/11 doesn't happen (and the subsequent roasting/being blown into a thousand pieces/or falling over 100 stories to their deaths of thousands of fellow Americans) I believe that a ball peen hammer and a couple of German Shepherds are entirely appropriate.
It goes without saying that many disagree with me... including fellow Bloglodytes. I'm comfortable with that. Reasonable men can disagree.
But anyhow, along comes a certain individual named Andy Malone who gave this bit of insight on the Catholic Answers forum;
Personally, I believe that real and significant torture used against captured Terrorists to protect the innocent is both moral and acceptable because of their method of conducting war on the innocent. Terrorism is a war on the unarmed without the constraints of acceptable force that protect everyone in a civil society whose members rightly expect to be safe and secure from violent death in daily activity. They crossed the line into barbarity and deserve to paid in the coin of that realm without restraint.
By golly... give that man a cigar.
posted by Vir Speluncae Catholicus
