- Prolonged isolation.
- Prolonged sleep deprivation.
- Sensory deprivation.
- Extremely painful stress positions.
- Sensory bombardment (such as prolonged loud noise and/or bright lights).
- Forced nakedness.
- Sexual humiliation.
- Cultural humiliation (such as desecration of holy scriptures).
- Being subjected to extreme cold that induces hypothermia.
- Exploitation of phobias.
- Simulation of the experience of drowning, in other words- waterboarding.
The difference being, I was being trained to resist interrogation by foreign operatives, and detainees were being interrogated. Where it is the same is-- no permanent harm was done to either class of subjects. Ergo, it's not torture.
Others claim it's a violation of the Geneva Convention.-- Sorry,, but it's not. These are not uniformed members of a recognized military or militia of any nation.
Terrorists falls into a really uncomfortable grey area under international law. They don't fit any of the international conventions of military, nor of national forces or political identities. What they are is a multinational, continent hopping scourge on society.
Terrorists don't utilize "enhanced interrogation", the beat you half to death. They break your bones, cut you up, then behead you on camera for the benefit of shocking and terrorizing law abiding peoples the world over. They utilize the act of terror to enforce their will over a unwilling people. Prime example was Afghanistan under the Taliban. U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan absolutely will not allow themselves to be captured because they know without doubt that they will be tortured and beheaded.
Now, how do we deal with them?
My answer is simple, yet politically unacceptable. Take no prisoners. None, Zero, Nadda. No quarter. Kill every single arms bearing person who confronts our troops. The terrorists claim they are in a Jihad against us.
Fine, a war to the knife is fine with us. We absolutely can kill them in job lots. We had better accept that this war will not be over until the last mothers son is dead and buried. To believe any other way is to lose this conflict, and invite the animals to kill our civilians in job lots once more.
Obama's ideals are grand, his acceptance of losing American civilians to terror is regal. He seems to have forgotten that the American publicabsolutely will crucify him if we are attacked again.
