motherjones.com — The first time Ben saw a detainee get beaten, he took the lead interrogator aside afterward to ask, "Was this stuff really allowed? Didn't it violate the Geneva Conventions?" "These aren't pows; they're detainees," he was told. "Those rules are antiquated and don't apply. You can't get any information without breaking that stuff."
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Closed AccountMar 5, 2008
I can live with being a cannibal for a day to stop a life long cannibal. Because, after I've eaten him, I wont be a cannibal anymore. And in the process, I've kept him from eating anybody else.
generalfaultMar 5, 2008
Did you skip over the part where he describes how making a person stand for 24 hours without rest can make your ankles swell up to twice the size and even cause kidney failure? Don't believe it? Shouldn't be too hard to try by yourself. Go for it and get back to us.
klcoMar 6, 2008
Either way even discounting the Geneva Conventions the US has ratified the Convention against Torture
pong32Mar 6, 2008
Very good point. Americans (US citizens) are the only worthwhile humans, so why should we treat others with the civility that we expect?
elasticsoulMar 7, 2008
"We hold it to be self-evident that all men are created equal." That is a moral statement that led to various laws. The foundation of laws must always be morality, or the immoral will use the laws to do immoral things.
diamondjoeMar 15, 2008
Maybe we have numbed our senses down close to the point of total apathy. I mean, as any trip to video store demonstrates, gory and brutal horror movies our some of our favorite entertainment. Fox's 24 would be a good example of our media bringing torture to prime-time, and us eating it up: <a class="user" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/22/is_torture_on_hit_fox_tv">http://www.democracynow.org/2007/2/22/is_torture_o ...</a>