We Like Torture, But We REALLY like SEXY Torture!!!

[mburbank]

"...considering the way we would be treated if the situation were reversed."

We'll have to agree to disagree here. I don't think 'the way we would be treated' is a good way to judge ourselves. I think that's a cheap ass excuse for allowing yourself to do stuff you know is wrong. AND if you read the article, all it gets is your opponent spitting in your face. So, it's ineffective, and it's a bad thing to do.

Michael Tyson bites peoples ears off. That does not make it okay for me to kick you in the nuts and while you lie there tell you, 'Yeah, well, if Mike Tyson had you, He bite off your ear, so quit your damn whining.'

Ask yourself, what are we actually trying to do? Protect ourselves? Spread democracy? Fight terrorism? I find it really hard to believe we advance any of those goals by 'punking' Iraqis with fake Menstrual blood.

AND it makes me think that when we pile 'em up naked and make them blow each other that maybe, just maybe, it has nothing to do with 'a few bad apples' and has maybe a little more to do with a morally bankrupt attitude toward prisoners. Now I might be more inclined towards moral bankruptcy if I thought this kind of crap was even marginally effective, but there's no evidence at all it is.

And moral bankruptcy is NOT graded on a curve.