[Ol' Sparky]

What they did had no interrogative value and no military purpose I could see

That may be true. And if so, they are guilty of incompetence, not a crime worthy of jail time, let alone more jail time than a child molester or rapist.

In fact, what you would do to a terrorist may well constitute abuse worthy of jail time. I understand you how you feel that way. But, given that you do, how in the world can you support seeing this woman going to jail when he motive was to save American lives?

[Rembrandt_fan]

Her motives, insofar as I can fathom, were simply based upon sadistic satisfaction. She and her buddies meted out abuse because they could. A psychologist could probably explain her deeper motivations, but I'm no psychologist. I just calls 'em as I sees 'em.

If I did torture a man to save lives--an extreme moral dilemma I doubt I will ever encounter, but one that I need to address in order to clarify the point I'm trying to make--then I would of course be subject to whatever laws I disregarded by committing the act. One may not be guilty of moral wrongdoing by doing the act I described, but one must also be ready to pay the legal consequences entailed by such an act. In a situation like that, it becomes a matter of 'rendering unto Caesar'.