Should civilized nations use "Enhanced Interrogation" techni

[kandrathe]

I have no sympathy for any of those nations except Venezuela, and even then, Chavez is wearing mighty thin.

However, can you name any remotely recent tangible harm done by any of these nations to the US or Europe? Or, if such harm is absent, how they are "hell bent" on doing so? Or are even capable of it, given the enormous gap in power between these relatively feeble nations and an alliance of nations comprising something like two-thirds of the world's collective miltary spending?

We don't measure nations by what they've done, we measure them by what they will do, and what they intend to do. Otherwise, you are always reacting to the mess after the damage is done, such as Kuwait. That was a colossally huge failure for the US, and Kuwaits other allies to predict Saddams intentions. I don't want the US to be in a position to react to Tokyo in flames, or trying to expel 1/2 a million North Korean troops from Seoul .

What does North Korea intend? North Korea threatens to attack US according to Kim Myong-chol, the middle son of Kim Jong-il and leading Pyongyang official. or, more recently, NKorea accuses US of plotting war, which in this case means using our influence at the UN Security council to apply sanctions against N Korea for their recent ballistic missile test.

How much of the "lack of harm" has been due to active countermeasures?