Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:58:06 PM
The ACLU and their useful idiot allies in the liberal media and Congress are aghast that the CIA destroyed tapes of interrogations they did of Al Qaida prisoners a few years back. These tapes showed these terrorists being waterboarded which the "tender sensitivities" of these terrorist apologists like those just mentioned consider "torture."
Heaven forbid, that we actually try to produce actionable intelligence from these sadistic scumbags before they and their colleagues have the chance to commit attacks against U.S. military and civilian targets! Do these dimwitted critics of coercive interrogation think that releasing such tapes will help us in our efforts to defeat terrorism? Do they ever stop to consider that release of such tapes might be beneficial to our enemies by revealing our methods for interrogating terrorist operatives? Has anyone in our national security policymaking community told the ACLU to butt out of matters that are not it's business? Isn't it time the government started cracking down on the ACLU and its efforts to obstruct national security policymaking? (Such a crackdown on the ACLU, including seizing organizational financial assets, would also have positive effects on our society in areas such as criminal justice and social policy given the ACLU's abysmal record of supporting the wrong side on practically every public policy issue.)
Our intelligence community needs to have nearly complete freedom of action to gather and exploit intelligence from our enemies without interference from amateurs such as interest groups, Congress, or the courts who have no understanding of the issues involved in conducting interrogations of hostile terrorists and military forces. The tapes should only be used by our intelligence community for training and information archival purposes. We cannot hope to defeat Islamist terrorists by tying our hands behind our backs and engaging in ritualistic orgies of rhetorical self-flagellation about how we "don't want to become like the terrorists." We need to remember that we are not engaged in an abstract philosophical debate in Plato's cave or enlightment Parisian salons but in the mortal combat of a religious war between Judeo-Christian values of religious and political liberty and totalitarian messianic Islam which seeks to extinguish the human soul in the medieval dungeon of a Taliban-dominated world.