Decisions
All this thanks to this man.
He had to first understand the awfullness of the treatments towards the prisoners, then to go against his own hiearchy and denounce what was to become a huge scandal. It's not easy to be a whistleblower.
Now, we see that violating the Geneva Convention lead to an abhorrent scandal.
The Geneva Convention was mostly inspired by American values, but the current US president rejected it and with the consequences we know.
The US isn't the current administration and Europe (and the world) knows it.