America creates decent people.

I do not here wish to enter the debate about whether waterboarding is torture. Nor do I wish to make a statement about whether waterboarding is right or wrong to use as an interrogation technique in the war on terror, or to use ever.

Abu Zubayda was a “wholly uncooperative” al Qaeda suspect and prisoner. He refused to speak for weeks. Finally, they used the waterboarding technique which led to Abu Zubayda giving up actionable intel. This intel led to a 2003 raid in Pakistan in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was “the principal architect” of 9/11 as part of al Qaeda.

It has also been revealed that the CIA has used waterboarding a total of only three times since 9/11. The ex-CIA who told all of this to CNN also stated that “waterboarding has saved lives.”

Nevertheless, America is such a decent, charitable place that a great debate has erupted so that no other al Qaeda operative or any other terrorist would have to undergo such treatment even if it might save American lives. In other words, either Americans are entirely idiotic, or they are the most decent people on the face of the earth. They would rather allow some of them to be murdered by terrorists than perform a very uncomfortable and painful technique on those murderers and terrorists.

Islamic extremists who have actually become terrorists operate out of different organizations and within different nations. However, virtually all that are within the Mideast, Holy Land and Persia, have one thing in common: they hate America and want to kill Americans. Many of them call America “the great Satan” and in reading their public statements it is clear they actually pray for the death of America and Americans. These people can all reasonably be termed “enemies of America.” Here are some of the things they’ve done, just in the last three months alone - November 2008, December 2008 and January 2009:

• Strap explosives on mentally handicapped women as “involuntary martyrs”
• Use infants in a car containing a carbomb to allay suspicion that the driver is a terrorist (yes, the infants were killed too).
• Behead prisoners and then lick the blood off the sword
• Chop the ears off of private security guards
• Bomb buildings while a wedding is taking place inside
• Bombing innumerable businesses and even the occasional Mosque
• Murdering a woman in her home
• Murdering a married couple with guns
• Bombed a college campus
• Cleric murdered in front of his mother
• Members of a religious minority in Iraq are targeted and murdered
• Countless other bombings, car bombings, drive-by shootings, kidnapping and murder


To recap, America has merely been quite harsh to prisoners three times in the past seven years. This harshness led to the saving of American lives. Nevertheless, Americans in great numbers protest these three instances and work through proper government channels to cause the method to become illegal for our spies.

America’s enemies have killed countless prisoners, tortured and mutilated others, have killed many civilians, including infants and mentally retarded women in the last three months alone.

Not even close to all Americans are decent and good people. Not even close to all Muslims are evil people. But in this war on terror, the combatants coming forth from either side are completely and utterly different. The moral divide is a moral grand canyon.

The people of America are great and decent. The combatants of America are great and decent. Its enemies are evil.

There were 2204 terrorist attacks executed by self-described Islamic radicals during the whole of 2008. These attacks killed 10779 people and critically injured 18213 more in 41 countries of 5 different religions.