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Torture works?
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Originally posted by Spanky
Every book I have read about underground movements during the Nazi occupation implied that if the SS caught you, it was guranteed you gave up names.
There was a Dutch resister, whose name escapes me, who didn't give up any names to the SS and he was considered unbelievably strong. The basic rule was that if you knew someone who was captured, time to disappear.
When my father was stationed in Berlin during the fifties, the KGB would stick western agents feet into the smelting kiln at the local steel works in East Berlin. My father said it worked every time. Any information the agent had was considered in the KGBs hands after that.
I think the refrain about torture not working is just wishful thinking. It would be nice if it didn't work, then there would be no temptation to do it and it wouldn't be an issue. But unfortunately the real world does not work that way.
In the real world, the tough decision = no torture (or rough interrogations)then it is harder to find other secret operativess. If we employ torture then we find out more secret operatives and foil more terrorist plots.
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You're saying that the problem is that we're willing to use waterboarding but not smelter kilns?
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