[RC2]

The only thing this will do, for the future, is that less prisoners will be taken. Count on it.

[torchthemummy]

The only thing this will do, for the future, is that less prisoners will be taken. Count on it.

That is it in a nutshell. If terrorists that don't wear uniforms, torture (the real thing), use mosques and ambulances for weapon storage and transportation, etc. are going to get away with ignoring wholesale the basic rules of warfare that we are supposed to uphold AND STILL get POW rights...then there will simply be less "POW's".

[bill1952]

> less prisoners will be taken. Count on it.

That would be because there isn’t going to be much effective use of the military at all.
Not because of this.

[dbz77]

The only thing this will do, for the future, is that less prisoners will be taken. Count on it.

Which is a very good thing.

Why spend tens of thousands of dollars per prisoner (that is the per-capita cost of running prisons) when a fifty-cent bullet is a lot cheaper?

[AmericanDave]

You mean they will be KIA (after interrogation).

Yes your right, even though water boarding was already stopped except in extreme cases. A newspaper article said even ‘good cop, bad cop’ was no longer allowed.

When thousands of American lives are on the line, can’t hurt one single terrorist!

Gimme Jack Baur. Obama will get us Nuked!