Generals Krulak and Hoar, still fighting for your freedom, but now on the Philly Inquirer op-ed page:

A lone Nigerian caught with a bomb in his underwear is no match for FBI interrogators and skilled federal prosecutors – without resorting to torture, which violates our laws and subverts our values. Some assert that once suspects like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get “lawyered up,” it will be impossible to get information from them about plots in progress. But FBI interrogators routinely crack tough suspects, even those with high-priced lawyers.

The assertion that suspects with lawyers never talk is simply wrong. Lawyers routinely encourage their clients to cooperate, especially in cases where suspects have been caught red-handed. And terrorists have proven eager to brag about their grand plans and al-Qaeda connections. Questioning in such cases has led to vital intelligence in the past – about sleeper cells in the United States, training camps in Afghanistan, and high-level terrorism suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

It actually gets even better from there, but I’ll just stick to that excerpt. True defeatism lies in believing American values have to be jettisoned to protect the U.S. against terrorism. True victory lies in not being terrorized as much as it lies in not being blown up, because more people will be afraid of terrorism than will be killed by terrorism, and push the U.S. unwittingly into counterproductive irrationality. (See for instance.) No more bitchassness.