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I of course agree with you totally on this.


I too don't subscribe to the notion that because some things have happen in war that were less than perfect we should then use those things to say... See there is NO LIMIT we can torture defenseless bound prisoners or crush the balls of their children, anything we want because some incident has happened in the past.


That's simply ludicrous thinking! The goals from our side and under international law that you're NOT supposed to go after civilian targets. Is there collateral civilian damage? Certainly. Did we use the Atomic Bomb on urban centers to end what would have definitely been a protracted war piling up thousands of more casualties on our side, and the other side as well? Yes. 


But this has nothing to do with the treatment of prisoners. Torture only inspires the enemy to fight to the death and not surrender which ends up killing more on our side as well. The documentation of you using torture only green lights to all of your future enemies to go ahead and use that torture and worse tortures... because we're all doing it. Torture is then the excepted standard by all sides. That's neither good nor logical. 


You capture someone, they have given up. You don't then bind them harmless & defenseless and brutalize and torture them, drown them, burn them, ram bamboo shoots under their fingernails... none of that.


They are to be interrogated and held in a reasonable manor. Because this wasn't always done and it was a great tragedy for soldiers on all side they came up with rules... they established fair treatment with the Geneva Convention to specifically address this problem.


It's all fine and well to think you can just do what you want because in this particular fight you're the Big Dog. But back in WW2 the Nazis were just as big... AND WE DESPERATELY WANTED OUR TROOPS COVERED BY GENEVA CONVENTION STANDARDS AND NOT TORTURED THEN. 


Who knows someday we may find ourselves at war with other Big Dogs like say Russia & China together... and we'd damn sure want those protections for our soliders once again.


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