TERRORISTS AND OTHER THINGS THAT GO BOOM IN THE NIGHT

Now that we have established waterboarding is torture we should ask ourselves some hard questions. Are there situations where torture is reasonable? For example, you have in custody a person who is part of terror cell and has freely volunteered the fact that he and his team are here to destroy America and that all Americans should die the most miserable death possible and that he and his team are in possession of a weapon of mass destruction to do just that.

Terrorists, some call them freedom fighters (this is a tricky twist of the tongue because historically freedom fighters did not target civilian populations), are a different breed. They are unconventional fighters and as a general rule they seek to destroy the rule of law, create chaos and destruction, and inflict as much pain and misery as possible on entire populations.

One might even apply the Rabid dog rationale here because in dealing with terrorists and those who support and fund them you are dealing with the preservation of civilization itself.

So the questions that need to be asked and the solutions that need to be found involve dealing with necessary evil. Is it sometimes necessary to do inhumane things to people who have developed mad, "Rabid," conduct and have the will, intent and means to inflict mass destruction on civilization?