Geneva Convention/Terrorists; protecting hatred

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So if they're not POWs they'd simply be detainees, right? Don't detainees as well have some sort of protection under the GC? I'm not saying we should serve them caviar (sp?) on toast points...but I don't think torture does anyone any good. First of all it sure as fuck doesn't help the person being tortured. Secondly it won't give us much clout in the world community. Sure...there are people who think we can go it alone and fuck the what the rest of the world thinks of us. These people are what I like to call "morons". Sure...militarily we might be able to swing it alone...but if we start pissing enough people off we'll suffer economically and we give creedence to those who wish us harm. My point is that regardless of whether this sort of thing is spelled out explicitly in the GC or not, if we want any sort of standing in the world when it's all over we need to exercise a bit of restraint with those in custody.

BTW Chris...given enough time, I'm sure I could prove that I killed Kennedy. Disregard the fact that I was born almost well over a decade later...I think I could pull it off.