Is there anything more galling than seeing a bunch of lily-livered liberals sitting around a TV studio denouncing everything from orange jumpsuits to Waterboarding as torture? Ask 100 people the random question, “Do you support torture?” and 95 would most likely answer, “No.” Ask those same hundred folks whether they would support Waterboarding on a terrorist who has information that could save thousands of American school children from a horribly violent death and the percentage of those who answer, “No,” is bound to drop drastically.

Yet liberals continually lump all discomfiting interrogation methods into one basket, which they’ve imperiously named “torture.” Muslim terrorists are not of the liberal-American mindset and torture is definitely relative to mindset.

Understanding Islam is the key to understanding the Muslim mindset and you won’t get there via the Bible, Hip-Hop, the U.S. Constitution or Sesame Street. You won’t get there by constantly repeating the mantra, “Islam is a religion of peace.”

African Muslims in Somalia recently lopped off one hand and one foot - without anesthesia — from each of four young men found guilty of stealing. This action was considered justice, not torture. It was carried out to great fanfare in the public square. Now, take a man fully accustomed to this kind of “justice” and place him in foreign custody. It is most unlikely that any American, save the most malevolently insane, could devise a torture half as brutal as the ones this man has already seen perpetrated against his own countrymen.

In the Muslim world, women are caned and lashed with bullwhips for wearing anything from nail polish to pants. A woman can be stoned to death in public for adultery. A man, even suspected of being a homosexual, can be summarily hanged. The modern Western mind can barely conceive of such things. Yet in the Muslim world they are quite commonplace and carried out by established governments.
Al Qaeda terrorists are accustomed to even greater brutality and, in fact, seem quite comfortable with such.

Although it was given scant establishment-media attention, in the spring of 2007, U.S. military personnel raided a safe house in Iraq, which evidently served as an Al Qaeda version of GITMO. There, our military found a manual with instructions for extracting human eyes, drilling through hands, severing hands and feet, dragging victims behind cars, blowtorching exposed skin, suspending victims from the ceiling and slowly electrocuting them, binding, beating and breaking bones to restrict breath. Detailed drawings accompanied these instructions. Also found were the actual tools of the genuine-torture trade: meat cleavers, whips, sledge hammers and the like, along with a few very scarred survivors.

Putting this into the context of CIA interrogations of prisoners in the wake of 9/11, is it not reasonable to assume that if an electric drill were spun in the vicinity of a detainee, without his full understanding that this drill would never be used by an American official, said detainee might indeed spill every little bean he had. If a man has seen Al Qaeda actually drill human hands and knows little about his own interrogators, it would seem only natural for him to be quite amenable to negotiation over the use of said drill.

Waterboarding, roundly considered torture by liberals, seems to me one of the best psychological warfare methods ever devised. You take a man, fully entrenched in archaic methods of genuine torture, a man who has perhaps even employed these himself against enemy combatants, and you subject him to an action, which you know full well will not kill him, will not even cause him the slightest physical injury and is something with which he has had no experience whatsoever, and you’re likely to garner a whole lot of valuable information that might save thousands of innocent lives. What’s not to like?

Even if we wanted to, we simply couldn’t out-brutalize Muslim terrorists. We must outsmart them, using their mindset against them.

The CIA knew stuff like this. Liberals still don’t get it. And putting myopic liberals in charge of our own national security is rather akin to giving your house keys to the starry-eyed girlfriend of a local gang leader when you pull out of the driveway for summer vacation.
It’s bound to end badly.