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Originally Posted by dculkin
My answer was a short-hand way of saying that the greatest country on Earth conducts itself in a morally upright and courageous manner. We have nothing to fear from affording due process and otherwise treating the scum of the Earth with dignity.I don't know the answer to your question. Someone like Senator McCain would probably say that our people get treated poorly. He would also say that it is important that the United States do better.
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Funny you should bring up McCain... Also from the speech yesterday:
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I want to be absolutely clear with our people, and the world: The United States does not torture. It's against our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it -- and I will not authorize it. Last year, my administration worked with Senator John McCain, and I signed into law the Detainee Treatment Act, which established the legal standard for treatment of detainees wherever they are held. I support this act. And as we implement this law, our government will continue to use every lawful method to obtain intelligence that can protect innocent people, and stop another attack like the one we experienced on September the 11th, 2001.
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We're not talking about torture. We're talking about methods that is are less severe than what we subject our own troops to during POW training, thanks to Vietnam.
The subject at hand is the prisoners "dignity" and "humiliation". Those two things mean little to nothing when comparing a person who is guilty of murder and is trying to do so again to an innocent person's life.
Is it that you find the murder of innocents on par with placing panties on the murderers head? Both are guilty of war crimes???