Quote Originally Posted by The Man
Pretty much all of western Europe, at least, abides by it.
You know what I mean. Terrorists and other enemies don't follow the Geneva Convention's rules, so why should we? And don't spout some stuff about "because we'd be sinking to their level if we didn't." That's bull. You know it, I know it, and every reasoning being in the universe knows it. Every organism in the universe does everything, and I mean everything, in their own self-interest; we have no "higher calling." We're merely trying to stamp out a threat to our way of life. This we have done, with a good deal of success.

My mindset is that as long as I can live my life unimpeded, I really don't care one whit what happens to those people or what our military does to achieve that end. Their lives don't affect me and never will. Torture them, rape them, do weird-ass psychic experiments on them, make them watch endless episodes of Friends for all I care. Just get them out of society and off of my news.

Incidentally, I'm all for the Iraq war, both to get rid of Saddam's potential threat and for the oil profits. I'm a firm supporter of imperialism and big business.