You have an odd view of how interogations actually work. Most of the world's best 'torturers' have reached the consensus that in most cases the infliction of pain is not necessary and is counter productive when you want to get good intel.
They do it slow first, then get worse. Americans don't, but most do. Remember, everyone is breathing down our necks.
Also please tell me where you are getting this figrue of 'millions'? You do realise the world trade centre wasn't a tardis right?
You keep doing things like that, the numbers do add up. You did know that right? They got stopped because we forced them to stop.
The Taliban were actually willing to negotiate the extradition of Osama Bin Laden. The US ignored international law by invading Afghanistan.
And the rest of Al Quaida? I don't think so. Power assumes from the top down. Hierarchies never work it a 'Cut off the head' fashion. You have to kill the whole body, not just the head.
currently we're doing great but we have lost people
We would lose more if we fought like them. Less from them, but more as the rest of the world gets really pissed off and starts attacking you. Don't forget, their methods kill thousands of people, far more than military fighting does.
The US ignored international law by invading Afghanistan.
We completely followed it.
Get attacked = fight back. Simple as that.
This is the kind of logic that justified the use of chemical weapons on civilian populations in Vietnam. A war which you ended up losing.
Our current methods are hyper conservative. We don't kill everything to kill one person. Unlike in Vietnam, we have hyper precision weaponry. We know who to kill, and when to do it. Our current methods are the best methods of warfare around, besides sitting around and waiting for attacks, which would kill us faster than them.
