New Poll Shows US Citizens in Every Demographic Support Torture (Republicans, Democrats, White, Blac

[Banjo]

From moderate Democrats to White Evangelicals, Nearly Every Demographic Group Believes Torture Can Be Justified.
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogs...us-citizens-in-every.html#kOBZbTYwBou3jPhC.99

 

[dbphoenix]

Which means that Americans are no better than anybody else.

So much for our "exceptionalism".

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

No, it means that outside the far left hothouses of the media and universities and democrat grandstanders, people have not lost their sense of self-preservation.

 

[gwb-trading]

Which means that Americans are no better than anybody else.

So much for our "exceptionalism".

We are exceptionally great at eliminating terrorists.

 

[dbphoenix]

We are exceptionally great at eliminating terrorists.

And yet they keep coming.

Why do you suppose that is?

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

Because they are fighting a religious war, no matter how many times as we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Because they are fighting a religious war, no matter how many times as we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

Precisely. When one side is absolutely unwilling to negotiate under any circumstances and the only acceptable outcome for them is your death, then you are left with no choice but to kill or be killed. For someone watching to then say that you are the problem is a vast display of ignorance.

 

[gwb-trading]

And yet they keep coming.

Why do you suppose that is?

They want 72 virgins?

 

[dbphoenix]

Because they are fighting a religious war, no matter how many times as we try to convince ourselves otherwise.

Even if that were true, why us?