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Originally Posted by MTI
The "GC" argument is specious . . is the US concerned that al Qaeda is going to bring war crimes charges or treaty violations against it in the Hague? Please, that's a justification that demonstrates an inoperable moral compass.
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One man's "specious" is another man's "cogent".
to me, culture is transactional group behavior. As long as we all treat each other okay then we will all be okay. But if the transaction fails then we no longer have a consensual relationship. From that moment forward, we both get to choose how we are going to act and whether or not we care to take the other side's behavior into account.
My accounting for the Al Qaeda folks is how they treat other people. If they were to quit dynamiting civilians in markets and quit trying to fly airliners into buildings and quit trying to dynamite buses and trains of civilians I might be will to treat them as legal combatants according to the Geneva Conventions.
Until then, crank-up the rock-n-roll in the detention facility and pull up the waterboard as needed.
So far it appears as though that particular technique has been used only 3 times on Al Qaeda. How many thousands of times do you think it has been used on American sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen in the course of training? Are we torturing them?