I finished watching a great HBO documentary last night about Abu Ghraib prison, and it was a real eye opener to say the least. The Bush Administration defended its policy on enhanced interrogation's by saying that since the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, along with other terror groups, never signed onto the Geneva Convention, and since they themselves deliberately target civilians and kill prisoners of their own, that consequently gives the US and other governments the right to use torture on suspected terrorists and captured fighters overseas. So say for instance that we capture a known ISIS fighter overseas who may have actionable intelligence about ISIS attack plans and its leaders; ISIS sure as hell doesn't follow the Geneva Conventions. So should we torture him?

 

 

I'm very interested in reading the responses to this question.

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