HOW CHURCHILL DEALT WITH THUGS

Churchill recognized that torture -- the cruel, needless infliction of pain as a means of domination and control of others -- was emblematic of man's barbarism, as opposed to the values of what he called "Christian civilization." It was precisely this barbarism that he saw in the Nazi death camps and the Soviet gulag -- and that we see among the Muslim fanatics who will stone women to death for refusing to wear the veil or behead reporters.

But Churchill also understood that, if barbarism was one enemy of civilization, another was a moral cowardice disguised as moral qualms -- an instinctive flinching in the face of danger, dressed up as "upholding our values."

"There is no place for compromise in war,"

Churchill wrote. In choosing between civilized restraint and the British people's survival, he never hesitated. He contemplated using mustard gas if the Nazis invaded England. He authorized the fire bombing of German cities, the so-called terror bombings, in order to cripple the German war effort and morale. He was prepared to let Mahatma Gandhi die during his hunger strike in 1943 rather than be blackmailed into abandoning India, the last bastion against Japanese domination of Asia.

As for German POWs and spies, Churchill left matters in the hands of his interrogation master, Col. Robin Stephens. It's true that Stephens told his interrogators that "violence is taboo", but he felt perfectly free to use every degree of psychological pressure on his detainees, including sleep deprivation and hooding prisoners in solitary confinement for long stretches.

He'd have tried women's bras and caterpillars, like our own interrogators, if he'd thought of it...

[Again, water boarding {used on all of three top-tier prisoners of war} is an ingenious way to use a body's survival instinct to scare them witless - while doing no harm, physically or mentally {many studies have proved}.

I.e., It is not torture. That's just word games {First; control the language}. It's an advanced enhanced interrogation technique to get answers we must have, used under extraordinary oversight {every pour recorded?!}.

We'd be absolute imbeciles to deny ourselves its use.]

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