Torture

I’m not sure where I stand on the current debate over legislation to conform to the Hamdan Supreme Court decision. I believe that some of the “coercive interrogation techniques” that have been used by the CIA on a half dozen or so detainees, do amount to torture, and I don’t like the idea of the U.S.A. condoning it. On the other hand it seems more than likely that the plot to blow up nine or ten airliners leaving London was broken up because of the use of such techniques, or worse, on the part of the Pakistanis. Was it worth damaging our moral authority, which nobody believes we have anyway, except for American Republicans, to prevent the planes from being blown up? How will the torturers who prevented this obscenity be dealt with on Judgment Day? If you were God, how would You judge them?