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Yeah, right. Who in the international community would that be? Don't forget to exclude all the countries that do real torture, everyday, to prisoners, just for the fun of it, including their own citizens. The left has this fictional dreamy thought of an elite, above all "international community" that will finally put the big bad USA in it's place. Get real. We are the greatest force for good that this planet has ever known. At least when we don't have cowards like Obama at the helm.
Why do you assume that just because I suggested what may happen as a result of this information going public that I support such action? Reading comprehension...
If the Obama Administration won't do anything about it, it's highly unlikely any other nation would. Hence, the reason I prefaced my response with "worse case". Frankly, I highly doubt any other nation would dare touch this issue for two reasons:
1) Such information was already made public years ago. The only difference here is the details as to how helpful torture was to intelligence gather. From the looks of it, not very.
2) Most nations would consider beheadings to be far worse than any act of torture (mainly because it's their people - Europeans as well as Americans - who are being beheaded).
The only nations that might get in an uproar over this are the Saudis and the UAE and their hands are so clean here either. Nonetheless, if people across the world start complaining loud enough condemning America for our torturous deeds especially if world leaders take this up to the U.N., we might see some pressure to do something about this besides publishing a torture report.