Sallow
The Big Bad Wolf.
There is a "Golden Rule" of treatment of captives...
"Treat enemy captives as you would expect your captives to be treated"
If the US openly engages in waterboarding, sleep depravation, hypothermia, stress positions and whateer else the Bush Justice Department said we could inflict....we have no moral right to complain when these practices are used on our soldiers
Are we complaining about these issues?
I thought we may be complaining about American prisoners being hung:
William Richard "Rich" Higgins (January 15, 1945 July 6, 1990) was a United States Marine Corps colonel who was captured in 1988 while serving on a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. He was held hostage, tortured[1] and eventually murdered by his captors.
I'm not sure of your point here..
1. Is it that the US torturing prisoners would prevent this from happening?
2. Is it that we should allow terrorists to set the standard for humane treatment of prisoners? The "They do it, so we should get to do it too" argument
The 2 point has been largely rejected by this country since the revolution.