While there are valid arguments against using extreme techniques to interrogate prisoners, the idea that our actions in this area would somehow affect how our prisoners are treated is completely inane.

For the most part, U.S. troops have not been treated by ANY enemy in war according to the Geneva Conventions since WWII, and not even during WWII in many cases. This is decades before Abu Ghraib, or anything else.

The type of enemy we're dealing with would be torturing and killing our captured troops even if we kept our own prisoners in five-star hotels.

But hey, I'm sure al Qaeda will leap on your offered defense of their actions. They're good at playing the people over here.