Irregulars have always been treated differently than prisoners from an organized foe. Standard practice in every war we've ever been in has been that uniformed soldiers who are captured are detained and treated with a certain level of respect, but partisans and irregulars are usually put up against a wall and shot within hours of being caught.
The people who are being "tortured" are terrorists who are hellbent on killing as many of us as they can. They follow no rules of war and give no quarter to those they capture. IMO, this removes any obligation on our part to treat them with civility. Many of those released from Gitmo have either been killed or captured after rejoining the fight against us. The only morality I see in this conflict is to win, and that means by any means necessary.
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I don't see a problem.
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- captured spys...
- sliding down that slippery slope
- the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- Lots of people have defined it as torture
- re: the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- "nobody has yet to definitively define waterboarding as torture"
- rDid the gestopo use waterboarding? I would have thought that they had other "tools" at their disposal.
- Not-as-bad-as-Hitler?
- Yes. They called it the "u-boat" technique. (n/t)
- And lets not forget that we abhored it when the japanese used it. (n/t)
- We'll see. The USA's courts may very rule that it is torture.
- rDid the gestopo use waterboarding? I would have thought that they had other "tools" at their disposal.
- Tell that to the WW2 Japanese tried and convicted for it. (n/t)
- the chinese already do much more than waterboarding to spys.
- sliding down that slippery slope