Kaurthammer clears up the Torture Issue, for Me anyway.

Once again Charles Kaurthammer has hit the nail on the head in his latest editorial "Torture? No. Except.."

I wish we could say we never ever will use torture, but in a world that includes such evil as the Radical Islamists who routinely cut off hands and heads or stone women for walking outside with an ankle showing, it doesn't make any sense to me not to do whatever it takes to protect ourselves and innocent people who could be effected by these evil enemies. While I don't think of waterboarding is torture it is a politically correct definition. It is a very moderate form of interrogation when compared to the methods of Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or methods used currently around the world routinely for police interrogations. I know that doesn't make it right to water board everyone for any reason, but aren't the levels of aggressive interrogation techniques just as there is levels of crime, evil, or sin? I think so. I have no problem with saying we won't go past a certain point. Say, "We will never use electroshock" or "We will never severe appendages". But to say we will never ever under any circumstance use any kind of aggressive methods to obtain information is to say the least suicidal.

Read Kaurthammer's editorial and let me know what you think,

Texas Tom