Public Policy or Bad Movie? You Decide

Seriously, though, the ticking time-bomb scenario - that's the one they're always forcing down our gullet, right? If we don't "coercively" interrogate X terror suspect, thousands and thousands of innocent Americans will die. The worst-case scenario, let's just call it. I mean, seriously, this is what we're all led to believe, correct?.................................Well, let me just tell you something there, friends. If this is the template that we as a nation are going to formulate our foreign policy by, then, yeah, there might be some difficult sliding ahead for us. First of all (and, yes, this is where Mr.s O'Reilly and Gaffney majorly go astray), we always have to remember here that this particular stuff tends to have big consequences - not necessarily for this conflict, mind you, but for all the future ones. This, I'm saying, in that, yeah, while maybe Al Qaeda and company are themselves impervious to fairness/reciprocity, other potential opponents could actually be keeping a scorecard or two. And damned if we're not tipping the the scales, too, substantially!!.................................As for the actual far-fetched story-line itself, I don't know, I just don't see too many people getting upset IF IN FACT YOU KNOW A BOMB IS GOING OFF (how we would necessarily know this, that's never been satisfactorily been explained to me)!! Not that these tactics are necessarily going to work, mind you (coercive measures rarely do, most experts say), but, hell, if nothing else is working, it might be worth a shot (smack the guy around a little bit, whatever). Careful of the slippery slope, though. Always be careful of that, me-buckos....................................P.S. And, no, don't even get me going on world opinion, America's present status as a laughing stock, etc.. That, I'm saying, and the rest of the Bush-induced idiocy.