TheEye tends not to comment on high-profile news stories as they are usually done splendidly elsewhere. David Vance offers this, for example, about whether waterboarding and other methods of interrogation are acceptable in the War On Terror.

It’s the ticking bomb scenario – only it is real and the bombs will go off in the USA if they are not stopped. Time to face into the moral dilemma…
The Detroit Bomber told US investigators that there were many more Al Queda plots coming from Yemen to the USA. Then he spoke to his US funded Attorney and then he stopped talking.

He concludes:

Simple one for me. Do what is necessary to this piece of terrorist scum if it can save so much as one innocent life.

When it comes to this debate, TheEye is poised ready with the relevant wires in each hand, but to take the matter further where do the American public stand on the issue in light of current events?

Rasmussen Reports tells us that 58% of Americans support waterboarding the Detroit terrorist to get information. 30% wouldn’t and amazingly, 12% don’t have an opinion. Fine, disagree with it if you have any problem with finding out things which might save the lives of your fellow countrymen…but not to have a view? That’s just odd.

We learn that men and younger voters are more strongly supportive of the aggressive interrogation techniques than women and those who are older. Republicans and voters not affiliated with either major party favour their use more than Democrats. Seventy-one percent of all voters think the attempt by the Nigerian Muslim to blow up the airliner as it landed in Detroit should be investigated by military authorities as a terrorist act. Only 22% say it should be handled by civilian authorities as a criminal act, as is currently the case.

In a slew of other poll findings, some interesting and some less so, we also find surprisingly that only ‘63% say political correctness prevented the military from responding to warning signs from Major Nidal Malik Hasan that could have prevented the Fort Hood shootings from taking place’.

Quite why that isn’t 100% is unclear. Again filed under the “Why isn’t it 100%” category is the fact that only ‘79% now think it is likely there will be another terrorist attack in the United States in the next year’ although that’s a 30-point jump from the end of August when just 49% of Americans thought that.

Despite all that they have gone through in the last few years, it shows that some Americans (and many in the UK too) just don’t get the reality of the world today.