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it seems like there's a lot of gray area where torture is involved. I don't know if I exactly condone this sort of behavior from our own troops, but is it really torture? I don't see these prisoners waking up in a cold sweat 20 years down the road from a "dirtiness flashback."

when we think ourselves too gentlemanly, we make a fatal error. it happened to the British, the Romans, the French, etc.