More good ideas from Donald Trump, who's proving to be as much of a menace on foreign policy as he is on domestic issues. Trump now supports reviving the CIA’s discredited interrogation tactic of waterboarding, reports Bradford Richardson:
“I would bring it back, yes. I would bring it back,” Trump said on ABC’s “This Week" on Sunday.
Trump said waterboarding is tame compared to what Americans face when they're captured by Islamic extremists. [...]
“I think waterboarding is peanuts compared to what they’d do to us, what they’re doing to us, what they did to James Foley when they chopped off his head,” Trump added, referring to the slain U.S. journalist.
He added that he planned to “absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation.”
Wow. Wouldn’t it be great to have a president who calibrated his understanding of American ideals to what the terrorists were doing? I mean, talk about moral fiber. It’s a lot like Trump’s understanding of the word "absolutely," which is actually totally variable. Early last week, he said he would "absolutely" close down U.S. mosques. But after getting push back on what a lunatic idea that is, he backed off during his Sunday interview.
“Well, I don’t want to close mosques; I want to surveil mosques,” Trump said. “I want mosques surveilled.”
Great, we're not shutting them down, we're gonna sick the FBI on every mosque in America and maybe still create that Muslim registry Trump's been talking about—only on Sunday he indicated that he wants it primarily focused on Syrian refugees. Still, he added that he's "not at all" ruling it out for all Muslims in the U.S. Of course, just two days earlier, he was “absolutely” creating a registry for all Muslims.