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2005-01-06 Home Front: WoT

Too Nice for Our Own Good (or Playing Patty-Cake with AQ)

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Posted by Captain America 2005-01-06 12:30:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Everybody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-06 1:00:42 AM|| 2005-01-06 1:00:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The solution is simple. Tell the prisoners that there are Mossad agents in-country and that a "transfer" can be arranged, if it comes to that.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-06 1:38:06 AM|| 2005-01-06 1:38:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 If I was in charge down there, I would cut off their fingers one by one, telling them they will have trouble opening the Koran with fingerless stubs...unless they start giving us useful info. Not only that, I would drag a few of their buddies in, and stick the fingers up their noses, and tell them there is plenty more where that came from. We have never fought an enemy that conducted themselves in accordance with Geneva, and I doubt we ever will. The Islamo-scums have been executing every American they get their filthy paws on. The World hates us anyway, so why not give the World, and these scumbags something to really cry about.

Posted by Destro 2005-01-06 3:33:23 AM|| 2005-01-06 3:33:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The most important thing to do is to protect our forces, especially our spooks, from the enemy: terrorists, their allies in the press, and the left.

I would make it a theatre-wide order that no names of new detainees are to be written down until the CIA gets their shot first. When and if they come back from CIA custody, then those prisoners' names can be released to the press so the MSM can mourn their capture.

Posted by badanov 2005-01-06 5:36:34 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org/title-boris.gif] 2005-01-06 5:36:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Actually you don't need any training. Staying absolutely silent is always the best strategy. It takes a lot to do it but it's the best thing to do.

Unfortunately the Soviets did not play along with that. The Soviets usually didn't like to convict someone without a written "confession" first.

There are very very few people you can't crack in the end. Those who didn't (or died before) just weren't treated "the right way".

Physical pain is completely unnecessary btw.

Posted by True German Ally 2005-01-06 8:19:34 AM|| 2005-01-06 8:19:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Belmont Club has an excellent essay on that very topic today.

Posted by Mike 2005-01-06 8:51:58 AM|| 2005-01-06 8:51:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike, you're right. Belmont Club complements this piece quite nicely. Good point!

Posted by Captain America 2005-01-06 10:35:30 AM|| 2005-01-06 10:35:30 AM|| Front Page Top

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