The Psychological Impact Of The US Torture Program

Two things, one, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (which were approved and legal at the time of their use, and were outside the legal, internationally accepted definition of torture) were used on a "handful of detainees" which resulted in obtaining "valuable information" that "saved many lives," according to George W. Bush in his autobiography, "Decision Points." Two, let me see even ONE article by you people about the "torture" and "suffering" (still) from those affected by the terror attacks of 9/11, instead of this overindulgence of sympathy for unlawful combatant Islamists who want to kill us, who could have all been lawfully killed on sight on the battlefield. The fact that 731 were RELEASED from Gitmo, and a few still remain alive at Gitmo, is a tribute to the benevolence of the United States. By the way, none of the nearly 800 unlawful combatant Islamists held at Gitmo were executed, beheaded, blown up, hacked to death, dragged naked and lifeless through the streets, drowned or burned alive, all things our enemies have doe to us and/or our allies. The Islamist equivalent to Gitmo is a pile of heads. There is no moral comparison between how the US treats captives and how our enemies do so. In fact, International Committee of the Red Cross physicians I worked with at Gitmo and later in Iraq, told me, "No one does [detention operations] better than the US." Gitmo isn't perfect, but it is a small piece to the big puzzle of how we win the Global War on Terror, with or without an honest media. Sincerely, veteran Major (RET) Montgomery J. Granger, former ranking US Army Medical Department Officer with the Joint Detainee Operations Group, Joint Task Force 160, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and author, "Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior."