So It's Not 'Torture'. IT Is Still Repulsive....
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You know, you may not agree with me on this point, but doesn't it seem that we're trying everything, moral, degrading or not, to get these people to talk? What is wrong with us? Do we acutally sincerely believe that because these people did a bad thing to us first, we're legitimately able to toy with them, violate their religious taboos as a scare tactic so we can loosen their lips?
And since it's not covered by the Geneva Conventions (which never really stopped us before now), it's all ok. Is this a game of let's get all the information from these people as much as we can? I feel morally indignant by this personally, considering I've also published articles where detainees had ended up in Gitmo and shouldn't have been there in the first place. It's almost like the military age of investigators have been installed to find out information our intelligence sources should already have. And before I hear the inane arguments of 'what's good for the goose is good for the gander,' and 'oh...so you're saying police shouldn't use 'good cop/bad cop and verbal intimidation,' first off, since when did we determine American morality and honor on what a bunch of Muslim extremists did to us? The second is so ludicrous I end up smirking. There's a difference between rubbing ink on someone's face and declaring it blood, and threatening to rape a prisoner, then verbal intimidation and using minor psychology to get them to talk.
I don't know exactly what to believe anymore of what's ok and not. When a Marine general says in public that it is, "fun to shoot some people," I idly wonder about the characteristics of this nation and where it is headed. Is this justice, or is it revenge?
I wish I could tell you where one begins and another ends.
Tortured That We're Having This Issue In The 21st Century, The AWM/wolf dragon,
Sol
PS-- Just so you guys don't think I'm making the general thing up, I've provided you your choice of links:
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