Posted by Harcamone
Pretending you’re a smart cop — instead of whatever you actually are — is a good way to read the news. A smart cop would never have bought Newsweek’s explanation for WHY interrogators flushed a Koran down the toilet: to get prisoners to talk.
But why would anyone believe such a ridiculous thing? Well, to a person who lacks a spiritual dimension (like most leftwingers and certainly the average Newsweek editor), I suppose the explanation makes perfect sense. Do you have a surly Moslem prisoner who refuses to answer questions? Threaten to flush a Koran down the toilet. He laughs in your face? OK, fine. Now actually go and do it — flush one — so your man knows you’re serious. Boy, then you’ve got him! So great is his fear that another Koran will be flushed down the toilet that the prisoner will tell you what you want to know. ANYTHING … he is pleading … I will tell you ANYTHING … just PLEASE don’t flush another Koran down the toilet.
If you’re not a smart cop with a trained nose, if you’re just an unliterary Ward Churchillian leftwing atheist with no sense of play, no experience of literature and drama, no understanding of deep religious belief and committment, and little knowledge of street-level human nature — plus, bien sûr, you have strong anti-American predispositions — it’s easy to believe such a shit-story.
Anyone who believed it, who took it at face value, ought to be ashamed of himself.
Mind you, it is not impossible that some American interrogator or guard had such contempt and disrespect for his prisoners, or for Islam, that he threw a Koran in the toilet. But doing it as a tactic to get prisoners to talk? Only a moron could believe that.