If you pre-emptively agree not to torture your enemy's soldiers, while they're still torturing your soldiers, you lose your bargaining position.
What bargaining position are you referring to here? That if they don't stop torturing your guys, you will start torturing theirs?
If so, it seems a pretty weak bargaining position to me. If the Enemy is torturing people, do you think they are the sort who will give a damn whether *you* are torturing people? You think these beheader guys give a hoot about who we torture (except for their propaganda purposes)?
I think in an Army v. Army situation, the military guys might care because they don't want to see their own guys tortured, but I don't think the politicians would give a damn. I frankly don't think our politicians who voted for torture would care except for the fact that it would make for great See The Evil Enemy propaganda.
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Date: 2006-10-11 06:45 pm (UTC)What bargaining position are you referring to here? That if they don't stop torturing your guys, you will start torturing theirs?
If so, it seems a pretty weak bargaining position to me. If the Enemy is torturing people, do you think they are the sort who will give a damn whether *you* are torturing people? You think these beheader guys give a hoot about who we torture (except for their propaganda purposes)?
I think in an Army v. Army situation, the military guys might care because they don't want to see their own guys tortured, but I don't think the politicians would give a damn. I frankly don't think our politicians who voted for torture would care except for the fact that it would make for great See The Evil Enemy propaganda.