Lots of outrage this week over the Senate Intelligence Committee’s $50M report investigating the CIA’s interrogation techniques. The report sheds light on the treatment of detainees since Sept 11, 2001 and the CIA’s use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’.  Here is an excerpt from CNN;

‘More than a hundred detainees went through the CIA’s detention program, and about a third were subjected to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” which included waterboarding, exposure to cold temperatures, slapping and sleep deprivation. Three were waterboarded, which is considered the harshest of the techniques’.

So, let me get this straight:  If you are a terrorist and you either try to blow up Americans or have knowledge of plots to do so, our CIA will make your life uncomfortable.  And we are supposed to apologize for this?  If we are searching for evidence that the politically correct pendulum has swung too far, look no further than the outrage of Americans more concerned about the comfort and well-being of those who rejoice in the killing of 3000+ American civilians than our own safety.

What exactly should we be sorry for?  And don’t even try that moral equivalence tripe about this ‘making no better than the terrorists’.  If you can’t tell the difference between those who dream of killing American civilians and those trying to protect us from terrorists then you are either intellectually dishonest or too stupid to have a debate with.  Either way, I’m not talking to you.

And is it really such a bad thing for terrorists to know that if you mess with the bull you might get the horns?  I can’t understand the pundit’s warnings that this report will be used by terrorists for recruiting.  Not that I give suicide bombers a lot of credit for clear thinking, but how would knowing that you might get tortured if captured make you more likely to suffer and die for your twisted cause?  Frankly, I like making them think twice about joining a Jihad against the stars and stripes.

I like putting a little fear and doubt in their heads about whether their brethren are going to be there to cheer them on in a dark, damp cell when they are strapped to a water board or deprived of clothes and sleep.

I like making them know that not everyone in America has become so wussified to cringe at the idea of fighting back, and that some of us will literally demand a pound of flesh (or more) from those who terrorize us.

I like making them know that we believe no less in our values than they believe in theirs, and we are willing to go just as far to protect our freedom as they are to steal it.

I’m not ashamed that we use aggressive techniques to protect our country from terrorists who celebrate American beheadings.

Despite attempts to stain America as bullies who prey on the weak, we continue to be the most compassionate providers of money and aide on the face of the earth.  We don’t seek out Muslims for abuse and torture, we bend over backwards to grant everyone freedom to worship and live as they please in this country.   Maybe it’s that concept of freedom that is so hard for terrorists to understand.  If we don’t forbid dissent, we are perceived as weak and vulnerable to acts of violence.   That’s their mistake.  As Dennis Miller puts it “Americans have an incredibly long fuse, but at the end of the day it’s connected to a big-ass bomb”.

Don’t start nothin’,  won’t be nothin’.