When "the good guys" aren't...

[sinpar]

Maybe it's because I'm sick and more suceptible to being ticked off... but the shock and outrage of the world about Abu Grabi and most recently the Congo seems too strident.

Take the situation in the Congo ( gacked that article from jabber): someone wrote that they weren't surprised and I responded with:
It didn't really surprise me, either. After

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[sophiaserpentia]

The FBI is of the opinion that information gained through torture is of questionable quality and has therefore been at the forefront of efforts to prevent its use at Gitmo.

[sinpar]

What's happening at Gitmo is cold information. Those prisoners have been out of the loop for ages. What's happening in Iraq is "hot" active and relevant. I think that the potential for getting useful information is far higher there than Gitmo.

The only honor in war is toe to toe, person to person, fighting for a cause you believe in. The best *man* wins, but even that doesn't make him the *right* one, just the winner.

Everything else seems to be wishful thinking.

[n3rd3tt3]

I'm right there with you. It's just ridiculous to me that people think that, honestly, that things like torture...or at least questionable interrogation techniques, are par for the course. This is WAR, not some t.v. show drama.

[sinpar]

They *are* par for the course. They just never got mentioned to the extent that they are now. If such had never been the case there would be no need for the Geneva conventions.

Left to their own devices, humans are not nice. We do far worse in real life than any tv drama would ever think of.