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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:01 PM Original message |
Poll question: The Resistance portion of SERE, useful training or an exercise in sado-masochism? |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
1. The OIG report found that the interrogators went beyond the SERE training |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Recognizing the truth of what you say, do you think it's a good |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:48 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I don't think debating that issue is useful to the torture debates. |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
2. Resisting interrogation if captured is arguably an exercise in sado-masichism |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:42 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. If it's good for keeping secrets, then why did the CIA use the same |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 06:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Torture gets you a lot of information, a lot of it wrong some of it right |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Aug-31-09 07:19 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. My question is, do we have sadistic assholes in the armed |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 01:27 AM Response to Reply #7 |
8. If it isn't necessary I think a better explanation is that they see it as a rite of passage |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 08:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. I think you are correct, and I think that is a very frightening thought. |
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mix (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 07:42 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Where is the evidence that torture produces "right" information on occasion? |
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Hippo_Tron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 11:57 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. If you torture somebody, they will tell you anything to make it stop |
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Bravo Zulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 01:40 AM Response to Original message |
9. I went through SERE training before going to Viet Nam, |
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hedgehog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-01-09 08:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
12. You probably know more about this than I do, but when the draft |
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