[hobbes1]

Every excuse you use to justify mistreatment of foreign troops

Troops?????? Not troops...Terrorists. I woyuld not support torturing troops. Combatants take risks. Thats the Job description.

Those that target civilians OTOH...

[DoughtyOne]

The differentiation between troops and terrorist is an important one. I appreciate you making that distinction. It should be made emphatically clear that the treatment of terrorists is in no way linked to that of combatants covered under the Geneva Convention. I should have caught that myself. These continuing battles sometimes blur the line in your mind what is actually taking place. And in this instance we are clearly talking about terrorists. At least IMO...

[DoughtyOne]

I should add to that series of comments, that I still think there are limits to what we should sign on to. I would agree that the interrogation process should be able to incorporate an elevated set of physical tools to encourage cooperation, since these are terrorists. After all, they are not targeting regular combatants but the general public, and generally vast numbers of them.