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Originally Posted by mikemover
The point is that the two aren't even CLOSE to being comparable.
WE treat prisoners INFINITELY better than they do.
So maybe our interrogators insult the prisoners (most of whom are guilty of numerous violent crimes) or insult their "peaceful" religion, or take their clothing, or put womens' underwear on their heads, all in an attempt to gain some useful intelligence that will probably save lives...
...So f***ing what?!....
When THEY take prisoners, (most often INNOCENT ones!) they saw their heads off with a machete and videotape it for the world to see!... Or they just kill them and hang them from a local bridge!....
The fact that you would even TRY to equate the way WE treat prisoners to the way THEY treat them is laughable, at best.
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Of course we treat prisoners way better and we should continue to, that is, once we eschew this torture business. These guys are too loosely affiliated for torture to be of much use. Too many independent franchises.
It's sad but true, even if they do 10 times worse than we do, when we torture, they'll just use it as more grist for their mill about what infidels we are.
I say we lead by example. The fantasy about having a guy who knows where a nuke is set to go off in an American city has a longer shot than winning the lotto 3 times in a row.
I've been hearing tales about how former interigators are not doing well once they return to civilian life.
The great Sioux medicine man, Black Elk, returned from a hunt with the other men once to find their village ransacked, the women and children dead, raped, scalped, maimed -- everything in smoldering ruins. They knew it was the white man because of the manner of killing. The young braves were incredibly hot for revenge, whooping and exhorting each other about how they were going to return the same ten-fold to the whites.
Black Elk held up his hand and said, "Wait! These people are NOT our teachers."