Why is OK to kill a militant on the battlefield but NOT pour water on his face in a jail cell?
Hitchens figures murderous al Qaeda masterminds merit no harsher treatment than German agent provocateurs received during World War II. Treat them with a little human dignity, and our chances of flipping them are greater.
We know that often works. So why is there this assumption that the American interrogators don’t try this approach? Who started the myth that, the instant we capture a potentially valuable target, we immediately begin waterboarding him? Perhaps every other approach up to that point had failed? Seems like everybody would be happier if we just shot these assholes at their point of capture.
It’s OK to slaughter dozens of militants on an Afghan battlefield but it’s absolutely reprehensible to collar one in a cell in Cuba. Or pour water on their face.
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