From: "Geo." 

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:40caf01c{at}w3.nls.net...

> Not quite on the torture thing for me anyway, it goes against my
> personality, but the rest of what you said makes sense.

If something changed and suddenly we had 1000 US soldiers being killed
every day, and the al Qaeda attacks started up in the continental US at a
rate of say one a day, would you find the idea of torture to get
information that may save lives more acceptable than you do today?

See, I don't view it as a moral judgement, I think it's a logical
evaluation we go thru to decide what is a justified action wrt war.

Now if you say that given the current situation you don't feel it's
justified, ok I can accept that but at the same time I can't argue with the
folks who say that having soldiers executed and their half naked bodies
displayed on TV or being dragged around behind a car, or beheaded, does
justify it. I think the differences in how you evaluate it is entirely
dependent on how close to the action you are.

Geo.

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