Should we torture our enemy to save the life of an American Soldier?

My son recently returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq. He is fine. Thank God! This week, I asked myself the following question: If through some divine revelation I found out that an American soldier had tortured an enemy combatant and extracted information that had saved my son's life or kept him from being wounded, what would be my reaction? The answer is that I would find the soldier that had inflicted the torture and thank him or her from the bottom of my heart.

I have already outlived my first child and do not want to outlive another!

My son spent all of 2005 in Iraq. In January, he was already there. By February, I realized that every man and woman in uniform was my son or daughter! I agonize each time one is wounded or killed. Ever since World War II, the U.S. has been obsessed with being politically correct. The American people and the American politicians should realize you cannot fight a politically-correct war and win. When you go to war it means that all the talk, threats, diplomacy and sanctions have failed. The civilized rules are out of the window. You cannot kill someone nicely.
The only "Rules of Engagement" should be to win - win as soon as possible, in the shortest time possible, with the fewest injuries and deaths of American soldiers. We owe that to our troops. They are our sons and daughters.

Doug Daniel Lafayette

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