Re: “Public faces truth while officials lie,” Dec. 22 editorial.
I don’t know anyone who likes torture; I certainly don’t. But the Denver Post editorial board disagrees with the 59 percent of Americans who think that enhanced interrogation techniques can sometimes be justified.
Letap consider a hypothetical scenario, one that is entirely plausible: Assume that a group of Islamic terrorists obtain a Pakistani nuke and manage to get it into a U.S. port in a ship container. We know itap here, but we don’t know where, or when it will be detonated. We have captured the group’s mastermind.
You have only hours to prevent unspeakable catastrophe. Do you maintain your high-minded “morality” and let him smirk at you while the bomb goes off, killing hundreds of thousands and sickening millions? Or do you do a little arm twisting to discover the location of the bomb and prevent catastrophe? The choice is yours.
Richard Stacy, Denver
This letter was published in the Dec. 25 edition.
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