Our country’s foreign and military policies are what have caused people in other lands to become terrorists. Our policies prevented them from having a legitimate recourse for expressing their grievances that came about also by our policies.

Torture is merely one more reason for them to become terrorists.

There have never been and never will be “the proverbial clock is ticking on an atomic explosion in Manhattan,” if the U.S. changes its policies relative to people and countries outside the U.S.

If we continue with our policies that turn people into terrorists, who knows what might happen. Even when torture is used, it might well be too late to make use of any information thereby gained – assuming it is accurate information anyway. And if we haven’t captured anyone at all or haven’t captured anyone having knowledge of an attack or obtained some information relative to the attack by some other source, then we will never know it is coming, and it is all for naught anyway. The points are: 1. don’t blame others for problems we have brought on ourselves! 2. address the cause of the problem rather than its symptoms.

ONLY if we change our foreign policies will we be able to prevent a nuclear attack.

If you believe the United States is innocent, just read “overthrow” by Stephen Kinzer to become knowledgeable about our past policies that have led to our current situation.

And there are many more policies that could be added to his analysis.