The Pentagon is rewriting its detainee policies to remove any and all mention of the Geneva Convention because it "would restrict the United States' ability to question detainees". It doesn't restrict the ability to question detainees, it protects them from getting electrodes strapped to their testicles or raped repeatedly or any manner of horrible actions in the process of getting questioned.
I feel like instituting another edition of my Now & Then. 30 years ago we decried the Vietnamese for their horrible horrible treatment of American POWs and the ways in which the Viet Cong ignored the Geneva Conventions. Now, we wish to emulate the very behavior we deplored and throw the conventions out the window. I'm beginning to wonder what country I'm living in.
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