It appears from recent reports, that there are more effective ways of obtaining information or preventing further terrorist activities. Dan Carlin, in a recent podcast, told a story of a suspected terrorist who had information the US government wanted. However, instead of electrocuting his genitals, they paid for his wife to have surgery in Iraq. As soon as the wife came out of surgery and phoned her husband, the man began talking…

I tend to thing this form of obtaining information is more effective in the Middle East than torture. Why? Because the people of the Middle East remember. They remember every single attack, every single negative speech, every trade embargo… every wrong ever committed against them. They take Alma’s command of “O remember, remember my son” literally.

So if we’re talking about a people that remember everything, I believe that if we start acting with decency and a higher moral standard that they will begin to remember that. It might take a few years, or even decades. But I firmly believe that after enough time has passed, the balance between good and bad memories will tip in our favor and the radical Islamic children who are now told stories of American atrocities will be told of the woman who had a life-saving surgical procedure… courtesy of the United States of America.