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br> Re: Jed Babbin's Levels of Discomfort : /p>

In response to Jed Babbin's "Levels of Discomfort," I would like to suggest a politically incorrect interrogation technique that would be uniquely effective with Muslims.

General Patton quickly put down a Muslim rebellion in the Phillipians by ordering his soldiers to dip their bullets in pig fat and to throw a pig into the grave of newly killed rebels.

p>Today, if an interrogator walked into a Muslim prisoner's cell carrying a heaping plate of bacon, started asking questions and, if the prisoner refused to cooperate, ask if he was hungry, I believe the interrogator would soon get answers he or she sought. After all, if a Muslim terrorist believes he will be given 70 virgins in Paradise if he dies for Allah, he also believes that consuming pork would gain him a one-way ticket to Hell. I'm not proposing that the interrogator stuff bacon down prisoners' throats. The mere suggestion of that possibility would be enough to terrorize a terrorist. br> -- David Watson br> Montgomery, Alabama /p> p> I suggest that the need for better interrogation techniques with terrorist suspects is only part of the problem. The first problem is to acquire the will to win -- America doesn't have that and doesn't look like it ever will have it. America's first priority is not beating the terrorists, it is avoiding upsetting those people and institutions (like the media, human rights groups and the UN) that either don't understand the dangers of terrorism or who support it. Once America does decide it actually wants to defeat terrorism (rather than merely talk about it), everything else will follow -- effective interrogation and all the rest of the "must haves." General George C. Marshall called the will to win the essential requirement for victory in any war -- with it, anything was possible, but without it, nothing was. br> -- Christopher Holland /p>

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