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Chip. Wrote: Feb 26, 2013 1:32 AM
He was a WWII vet, probably not in combat but as a WWII vet, would have been aware that torture was what our enemies practiced, not us, and we won the wars because of our values, and he was active in trying to have the 9/11 attacks investigated.
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Joe296 Wrote: Feb 26, 2013 7:39 AM
Asner was in the Signal Corps, and, according to wiki, he "appeared in plays in the European Theatre to entertain troops while a member of the armed forces. Not exactly a role that would lead him to know anything about enhanced interrogation techniques.
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t252 Wrote: Feb 26, 2013 3:06 PM
if you think americans did not torture the enemy to get vital info during WWII, you are living in a fantasy world.
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Chip. Wrote: Feb 26, 2013 7:02 PM
What the heck would you know about that?
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You've got to admit that it's awfully precious that there was a huge controversy about "Zero Dark Thirty" because Kathryn Bigelow's film suggested that enhanced interrogation techniques helped intelligence officials find Osama bin Laden but no controversy about the final mission in the movie -- to kill, but not capture, the al-Qaida leader.
Some of the film's defenders believe that the controversy robbed "Zero Dark Thirty," Bigelow, actress Jessica Chastain and screenwriter Mark Boal of well-deserved Oscars. Maybe so but maybe not; a number of fine films were up for best picture this year.
But it cannot have helped that Ed Asner and...
In Denial Over 'Zero Dark Thirty'