I cannot believe how stupid America was to sink to this level. All the conventional wisdom about the efficacy of the Geneva and Hague Conventions and the basic decency of Americans out the window. Now we prove ourselves no better than any thug government.
Yes, we are better than this. Never should the U.S. have stooped to torture. Whether released now or in the future won’t change the fact that we committed state torture. One of the worst outcomes is that we now have little standing to tell others to not torture our soldiers when we do it to others. As a veteran, as a father, that worries me most because we given license to others to do as Americans do. In the process we have lost part of what made America exceptional.
Did Al Queda or Isis sign the Treaties?