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Originally Posted by Willravel
Meanwhile, on an adjacent yet less abstract road...
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.
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"?
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?
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Step away from the coffee machine Beavis.
I not once ever said anything about GWOT and the Bush Administration being justified in using torture. It hasn't been a SINGLE post of mine.
You may not find that it has no place in your world. There are vast tracts of history you should not read since there's torture all over it.
Again, you're trying to oversimplify a larger point of view that I have into some internet meme that jives with you you live. I'm sorry but you'll not be able to do so with my points of view on this matter.
Really? Intimidation? Oh so it has a use.....
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