Such persons may feel torture is a necessary evil to avoid attacks in the future and justify their existence by comparing the extreme brutality of the terrorists, to the lesser evil of torture by democratic governments. They will be wondering about what they don’t know about, as opposed to what leaks out to the media and their rumor mills.

It is, in the end, counter productive to the war on terror.. To add further grist and accuse those who speak out about the war as failing to support the troops, is merely a tactic and not a long-term strategy for winning the war. Some have given up on the war for ‘hearts and minds’ as a sign of weakness that the minority core of Jihadists will exploit to engender more support from the muslim street. The Islamists badly calculated in Jordan and are backpeddling because they were clearly stung by the demonstrations. If you want to disable those street condemnations of the terrorists, continue to make excuses for the reasons we need to ’suspend’ human rights for certain individuals.