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Originally Posted by Lazonby
Some common sense concepts.
1. If your enemy conducts itself according to decent laws and customs of war, then they should be afforded decent treatment when captured.
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The problem is that stopped with your point one. The whole concept, eg.. in Iraq, fell apart when a decison was made to invade. That has cost a few thousand US lives plus 30,000-40,000 more in Iraq and is totally unjustifiable.
From that time, there has been no "decent treatment" of anyone - this has been recorded time and again and depicts a scenario ranging from murder, thru to torture and inhumane treatment. Even Gitmo is a problem with orgs monitoring that facility.
Either you elect to conduct action on a level of.. whatever.. "morals" or become a rogue state which condones torture and is in violation of the Geneva Convention.
An extreme comparison would be for allies in WW2 to adopt the tactics of the Waffen SS and set up death camps for German citizens.
If that is the path being followed - there is a payback time on several levels and little support will be forthcoming from other nations who wish to retain the standards of the Geneva Convention and not George Bush's version of it. This kinda stuff just alienates the US from other countries - not a wonderful idea.
Upping the "anti" is never going to win any "war on terrorism" - no war on terrorism is "winable" to start with - and simply opens up the doors to further attacks on the US and opens up the prospect of similar action against US troops - plus loads of mileage in others despising the US.