FMarano says:
What info? How info on future attacks? They also gain info on how and what the bombs are made from.....there is PLENTY of info to be gained from interrorgation......
Do you really think someone with the fortitude to be able to blow themselves up is going to give up any useful information on future attacks? Sure, I don't know interrogation techniques, and yes, I assume there are "ways to make people talk"; but "SO WHAT!"
There isn't much he could give up that would compromise anything in the future (if he could and did the terrorists would just change their plans).
I fear that people just don't get it. The terrorists have the upper hand not by be smarter, or one step ahead, or by planning...NO, the terrorist have the advantage by being WILLING to do things that we are not...like fly a plane into a building, or strapping a bomb to their chest and walking into a subway.
They can't be negotiated with, and they can't be stopped with "conventional" tactics. This is a change in warfare, the likes of which the world hasn't seen since farmers and squirrel hunters hid behind stone walls and in brush patches and took pot-shots at the British over 220 years ago. We seemed just as "uncivilized" to the British back then.
This war will be one through intelligence...the covert kind, with knifes to the throats and backs of key "leaders" from those that they have come to trust. And, because of that, it might take a decade or two for us to infiltrate. Oh, and another way to stop this war...change the hearts and minds of the people on boths sides...move them each a little closer to one another.
TJR