| No, I do not believe they should be extradited so long as they are authorized to use methods of aggressive coercion.
These methods have been around for thousands of years. We have been using them since we became a nation. I realize many countries have "outlawed" this practice, but in all fairness most of them also have green armed forces and are not engaged in war.
I personally support torture. We don't just draw and quarter people to get them to talk. They have ample opportunities after being captured to "tell us what we want to know." If they are not willing to voluntarily divulge the information, then I have no problem doing whatever is necessary to retrieve that information.
The United States cannot afford to take a moral high ground on this one. Moral high grounds always cost lives. Being the better man still gets us killed.
I find it hard to believe that any militant group would accept anyone back that has been detained by the CIA. They have no idea of knowing what the person said to them, or even if they are now working for the CIA in exchange for amnesty.
-Chris
"I guess we are the people our parents warned us about." |