Glenn points to a couple links to discussions as to whether our latest war trophy should be tortured to garner requisite information from him, both to gather up members or terrorist cells and, more immediately, to prevent attacks that may be planned and imminent.

I don’t have any firm opinions on the subject, at least at this late hour, but I do wonder–once we’ve squeezed all the information out of him, and he’s a dessicated lemon, what then? What punishment should be in store for him?

I’m not into Biblical, or Hammurabian justice myself, but if you’re an “eye for an eye” type, it seems to me that an appropriate retribution might be to take him up to the observation floor (86th) of the Empire State Building, and face him south, toward downtown, so he could view the site of his atrocity. Confront him with a flamethrower, and offer him a choice, just as his victims had…