Controversial Interrogation Techniques

This is a very sensitive issue. There are human rights activists all over the world breathing down the necks of the members of the Bush administration pointing fingers and taking names over the alleged torture of suspected members of Al Qaeda.

I'm not going to say I'm for or against it but, of course I have an opinion that I'll be keeping ambiguous. There are two sides to this story and they both have very valid points.

On the one side you have human rights. People, regardless of what heinous act that person may have committed should not be treated inhumanely. I fully understand this outlook. I would hate to think that if I carried out the orders of my superiors, orders that I truly believed in with all my heart, that people would at least treat me humanely.

Then there is the other side of the argument. The ones that point out that these people didn't think compassionately about the people they killed and that in fact, they have proclaimed jihad against those whom they consider infidels. These people are so hell bent on killing the rest of us in the name of their god that they will stop at nothing to destroy us. Since they are not the only ones out there, there is a very strong belief that we need to do what we need to do in order to expose whatever it is we need to expose in order to stop any further attacks.

The problem is, these people follow a belief that is fundamental to their way of life. They believe what they believe because their faith in their god is unwavering. They have absolute faith otherwise, how do you explain why they are willing to die for what they believe and not only die but, endure hours and hours of alleged torture or so called advanced interrogation techniques.

You may have noticed that I have been referring to their god as their god. I say this because I don't believe that their god is my God. My God is a God of love, tolerance and compassion. I refuse to believe that they worship the same God that I do. I don't even believe they worship the same God other Muslims do. If only we, as a nation of so called God fairing people, practiced the same kind of faith in our God as our enemies have in theirs.

You may be asking, "Well bxn, what does that mean exactly?". Well, lets think about this for a moment. What were to happen if we all had the same faith in our God? What would happen if we all had the faith that God will take us out from underneath our rocks of intolerance and blessed us with the means to live in peace with our brothers across the ocean and them with us? Could it be possible that he would have delivered us from evil by now?

Hmm, maybe my sad little opinion isn't so ambiguous after all.