They can't scrap everything. Rommel still knows how many tanks there are, where the bases are, logistics, etc., and you cannot turn a huge army around on a dime. Al-Qaeda and Algerian rebels are much more diffuse than is a huge army and have far less inertia, so the situation is different.
Bill is simply utterly ignorant of everything, so torturing him would be utterly futile in any case. He probably doesn't know where his socks are.
--- On Thu, 4/23/09, X <from_alamut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: X <from_alamut at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Americans sorta like torture if it works
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 8:07 PM
> Any military organization which knows
> that its secrets have been compromised by the capture of key
> personale would change their plans almost immediately and
> scrape the plans that were compromised.
>
> Does anyone remember the movie "Battle of Algiers?" There
> the Algerian terrorists are tortured by the French
> immediately because it was policy of the terror cells to
> relocate and replan within 48 hours of a members
> disappearence. I know it was just a movie but it would make
> al quida really stupid not to have similar policies.
>
>
> peace,
>
> Jim Davis
> Ozark Bioregion, USA
> Planet Gaia
>