Torture and the CIA

With Obama picking his main minions the Left is again in a tizzy over the issue of "torture" and who should run the CIA.

I enclose "torture" in quotation marks because I have trouble in defining it. Branding irons, cattle prods, the Iron Lady, et al, are obviously instruments of torture.

But are sleep deprivation, exposure to temperature extremes, loud music, nasty talk by females during interrogation..... I think not. Is waterboarding? I think not.

Now enters the military who wants all prisoners treated like prisoners of war. Hint to the Left Wing Generals. All prisoners are not prisoners of war but should be treated as such by the military.

The CIA is different. How different?

I wrote the following on 12/16/2007 and I think sums this up quite well.

With apologies to Shakespeare.....otherwise known as that dude who caused us much misery in Senior lit, the question has become….. To torture or not to torture? That is the question. I mean we all know that only the evil ones of the world torture. And torture is immoral. Right?

Oh, really?? Let me pose a scenario to you. This afternoon you drive over to your local shopping center to shop. As you get out of your car you see an elderly lady walking towards her car one row over. You can also see two young thugs semi crouched between two cars, obviously waiting to mug her. As you start to move, one of the thugs sees you and makes a threatening gesture. Do you yell at her? Run at the thugs? Honk your horn? Dial 911? Or stand frozen in place, watching them jump out, grab her purse, knock her down and dash off?

If you chose to do nothing, I submit that you have just committed an immoral act. You have committed a sin of omission. We are our brother’s keeper.

The Left in particular, and some fuzzy headed Republicans are currently bent out of shape over waterboarding. I’m not.

The CIA is "our brother's keeper."

My thanks to Investor Business Daily.