Meanwhile, on an adjacent yet less abstract road...
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Torture has a place. It exists. No matter how much you state that it doesn't and shouldn't it does.
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In the context of the GWOT and the Bush Administration, torture represented desperation giving way to foolishness. That hardly justifies it. Something existing doesn't mean it has a place.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Really? It cannot control? Seems like the Talilban had control over the people.
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You think torture and torture alone kept "control" over the "people" of Afghanistan? No other factors there? No social and cultural factors? No religious factors? No economic factors? Are you really willing to sum up the Taliban situation in Afghanistan before the invasion as "it's torture, stupid"?
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Seems like the House of Terror in Budapest the building that housed the KGB and the Nazis where unspeakable torture happened, seems to disagree having tortured and controlled its people from the 1940s until the 80s.
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Same as above. Torture was implemented with the intention of intimidation, but was used with a host of other strategies. Can you perhaps find an instance where torture alone was used to control?