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Date: 2005-05-17 11:40 pm (UTC)On the other hand....
The Geneva Convention is actually one of enlightened self-interest. If you treat your prisoners well, word will get back to the other side, and it will actually make the other side more willing to surrender. If, however, you mistreat your prisoners, it makes them... quite bloodthirsty. As we have seen.
Besides. These people are fanatics. They'll either talk or they won't. If they decide they won't, Torquemeda himself couldn't make them. And trying to get them to talk is ultimately going to cost more GI's lives in suicide bombings.
As for not being offended: I as a free man have the right to not be witness to whatever offensiveness you care to commit. POW's by their nature can't run away. Furthermore, being offensive has consequences. Someone may come up and punch you in the mouth. If you offend someone badly enough, someone may blow himself up in your shopping mall.
I'm not saying we have to be uber-PC. If you've read me for long enough, you know my opinion of PC. *spit* I'm just saying lets not be egregiously offensive. You can call a man a low-down stuck-up half-witted scruffy-looking nerf-herder, but using the N-word is just a little beyond the pale. Same with POW's. If you want to convince them to talk, try convincing them you're not the devil incarnate first.
"Love your enemies, and drive'em nuts!"
-- Brother Dave Gardener