I can't decide if your naivete is charming and antiquated or simply foolish and out of touch.
Long before Bush, Reagan (and all those neocon bad guys) and even during the fabled FDR years and long before torture was regularly used by the US government. It was used during wartime extensively and during peacetime, liberally.
All other governments for that matter have also tortured and torture to this day, regardless of the Geneva conventions.
US agents are still issued suicide pills because torture is a risk everywhere...including, not ironically, in Geneva.
The false outrage over US actions by nations that do the same or far, far worse is simply that - false.
Obama is undergoing his epiphany. Each passing day will only increase his policy shifts to those of the "neocons" he rode into office decrying.
The difference is only some nations TRY not to torture. The US can be counted as one of those elite few.
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- Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Give them all quick trials. Shoot the guilty and release the rest. (n/t)
- What to do...
- re: Anyone have any ideas on what to do with terror suspects
- Try them as war criminals if that might stick, otherwise treat them as POWs in a US base - or send them home. (n/t)
- I was not being glib...what *are* the alternatives? (n/t)
- And I wasn't being flippant.
- I think you're simply asking the wrong people
- They've got nothing.
- Take TWO OLD 737's With American Airlines LOGOS still attached
- Can the US imprison all who hate the US? Do we turn domestic prisoners loose?
- Try them and hang them. (n/t)
- Easy, put a chip in and let them go. (n/t)
- Give them citizenship. Then let them join the military, and base them naer San Francisco, Chicago, D.C., and NYC. (n/t)
- Make 'em swim home. (n/t)