[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

So,If a terror suspect who has key information has been caught and is prepared to die before he gives any information about an attack or future attacks,Then what do you do?Just let him off?Or do you extract any information possible in order to save your citizens lives.
How could any leader just sit back and let terrorists kill hundreds or thousands of their people with no response?They would lose the confidence of the people very fast.
The first job of a president/prime minister should be the protection of its own people.
Letting them get away with murder will only encourage them to attack us more.
Leaders need to prevent attacks any way they can.These people will attack us wether we fight back or roll over and take it.I'd take fighting back any day.

Like it's been said earlier in the thread, torture isn't even that effective or reliable since chances are the suspects being tortured will simply tell the torturer what they want to hear whether it's true or not but that doesn't matter is torture isn't about getting information, it's about bloodlust and sadism dressed up as a warped sense of justice.

I won't engage in silly hypothetical situations since we'll just go around in circles and they are pointless. I will say this though, I do hope our leaders, iin this situation, would be smarter than to go with your overly simplistic 'KILL 'EM ALL' strategy. If problems could be solved so easily through war then we'd be going to war every other week.

You can't make make martyrs out of extremists, you torture or kill them? Their allies will use their sacrifice to recruit more soldiers. Groups like IS need to be dealt with carefully lest their fall gives rise to a group that's far worse.