rightwinger
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The fact we dont summarily shoot them does show we grant them basic human rights. The fact that in order to use coercive interrogation a decison has to be made at the highest levels shows we care about human rights. Giving them anything more than that makes us suckers.
You set a very low standard for human rights..anything above summarily shooting is acceptable.
My standard is quite simple......Would we like our captured soldiers treated this way?
Well...if our "soliders" were planning to target and murder thousands of civilians from another country, and they had the information to stop these attacks, then I would expect that if they were captured that the enemy could use waterboarding to get information to stop these attacks.
Exactly..
Our soldiers have precisely that information. Our pilots have information on potential targets, tactics, vulnerabilities that would prevent the deaths of both military and civilians.
In fact, In Viet Nam they were considered to be war criminals by the VietNamese because of napalm attacks agains civilians.
By your reasoning, they were correct in torturing our pilots