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Originally Posted by dculkin
For those who say that they don't care whether torture works because the U.S. doesn't torture, how do you explain why we bombed Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Dresden? I'm no historian, but I think that's a tough one to answer. Morally, aren't those bombings comparable to torture?
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No. They are more comparable to terrorism than torture.
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Originally Posted by Botnst
I haven't dropped my ideals. Sorry about yours.
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If you believe that we should act as they do, then you have. I personally do not want the enemy to dictate our morality.
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I don't want them to convert religions -- they can believe WTF they wish. Just quit killing my countrymen and we'll be bestest buddies forever.
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Their religion is the cause of them killing our countrymen. You simply cannot kill it out of them, unless you engage in genocide on a scale that can only lead to global nuclear war.