Ah "the golden rule", how did that help us avoid the 93 attack on the WTC? Or any of the attacks we didn't realize were attacks through to the the second WTC attack on September 11th? Geneva was fine as long as we were facing off with other countries. And the UN's CAT worked with like results when facing off with other countries. Now, we're facing off against people's afraid to show their faces. People's not in any uniform, they don't care about any "golden rule". How was Daniel Pearl treated? And those others? These people, like their Palestinian brothers, don't observe such pleasantries. When was the last time the Red Cross was able to prevent people's from breaking the "golden rule"?
Posted by peter at May 26, 2009 04:11 AMHa-ha, the one area where peturd is unwilling to lick the ass of the military and our WWII heroes: when they advise us how to interrogate our enemies.
When faced with this, Peturd simply goes into "deny the evidence" mode. And somehow thinks this (past) method of humane interrogation treatment somehow depends on the enemy being in a uniform.
God, how can you stand having a brain so toxified and stupified, peturd?
In any event, we have pretty much poisoned the well for all time by embarking on the Bushco torture path. Now we have NO workable, legal method to obtain reliable info from prisoners---another great Bushco legacy!
Peturd: "Yaaayyy!! More failure! We conservaturds love failure!"
Posted by euzoius at May 26, 2009 07:22 AMI'm so old that I can remember arguing with right wingers on the internet in 2002 about torture. Only then their argument was that America never tortures, that America is better than that, and that reports to the contrary by HRW and Amnesty were lies.
The right-wingers argued that the treatment of war prisoners ... oops, I mean "detainees", as after all they were merely "detained", just a minor inconvenience ... was the best in the world.
Posted by Anonny at May 26, 2009 07:55 AMOff topic as usual. The point is that torture not only doesn't work, but it's counter productive.
You can only interrogate detainees, prisoners, whatever, if you have them in your care, btw.
Doing the right thing always works out better in the long run, even if it isn't always the quickest and easier thing to do.
But you can't expect ignorant cowards to comprehend that.
Posted by Duckman GR at May 27, 2009 11:51 AM