Jimdamick
Well-Known Member
Americans are more open to torture than several war-torn nations and every other member of the United Nations Security Council, according to a new international survey.
The survey, conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), polled more than 17,000 people from 16 countries between June and September of this year. Of those in the United States, 33 percent said they believed torture was a part of war, and 46 percent agreed that a captured enemy combatant could be tortured to obtain information, compared to just 27 percent and 36 percent of all respondents, respectively. Those numbers grouped Americans among the nations most accepting of torture, with participants in Afghanistan, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Yemen, and South Sudan all showing less favor for such methods.
By contrast, only 16 percent of Afghans and 23 percent of Syrians believed that torture was a part of war, while most indicated that it was wrong.
US respondents were also the most accepting of torture among the Security Council’s five permanent member nations, which include Russia, China, Britain, and France.
Trump has already stated,for (the moment at least) that he doesn't see a problem with waterboarding, electric shock, sleep deprivation, starvation, sexual humiliation, needles under fingernails (only kidding, I think) and now, for the icing on the cake, using the threat of killing suspected terrorists families. especially if they are Muslim it seems. He actually thinks that torture is fine, and this if from the leader of the Free World (LOL)
So, what do you think boy's and girls, is it alright to torture someone, like they did in Guantanamo to prisoners of war, or is opening a Pandora's box as far as how we will be treated if the tables are turned.
The survey, conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), polled more than 17,000 people from 16 countries between June and September of this year. Of those in the United States, 33 percent said they believed torture was a part of war, and 46 percent agreed that a captured enemy combatant could be tortured to obtain information, compared to just 27 percent and 36 percent of all respondents, respectively. Those numbers grouped Americans among the nations most accepting of torture, with participants in Afghanistan, Syria, Russia, Iraq, Yemen, and South Sudan all showing less favor for such methods.
By contrast, only 16 percent of Afghans and 23 percent of Syrians believed that torture was a part of war, while most indicated that it was wrong.
US respondents were also the most accepting of torture among the Security Council’s five permanent member nations, which include Russia, China, Britain, and France.
Trump has already stated,for (the moment at least) that he doesn't see a problem with waterboarding, electric shock, sleep deprivation, starvation, sexual humiliation, needles under fingernails (only kidding, I think) and now, for the icing on the cake, using the threat of killing suspected terrorists families. especially if they are Muslim it seems. He actually thinks that torture is fine, and this if from the leader of the Free World (LOL)
So, what do you think boy's and girls, is it alright to torture someone, like they did in Guantanamo to prisoners of war, or is opening a Pandora's box as far as how we will be treated if the tables are turned.
