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Who Will The USA Get To Do Its Dirty Work Now?
As the various regimes across the Middle East who have historically tortured at the behest of the USA such as Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Jordan undergo major upheaval or collapse, and relations with Pakistan remain strained; will America be forced to resort to 'in house' torturing?
One may suspect yes, if the inhuman treatment of Bradley Manning is anything to go by, clearly there are those in the US are not averse to handing out cruel and unusual punishment when they want to.
@ Kojak
I really don’t know how I should regard your response. Initially I thought that you were being deliberately obtuse for comedic effect (you certainly made me chuckle) but I suspect that you are probably expressing your genuine beliefs and this begs the question: don’t you follow current affairs?
To address your main points:
The claims that Bradley Manning has been subject to perverse and punitive treatment by the US military amounting to torture are no secret and are the subject of an investigation by the UN - Try typing ‘Bradley Manning torture’ into google (you should find around 2 million results).
The United States’ inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners is a matter of public record; prisoners are reportedly still being abused in Gtmo and remember Abu Ghraib?
Water-boarding not torture? I wonder would you regard this so if it was US citizens being water-boarded by a foreign power? Whether or not the US military is ‘allowed’ to torture is irrelevant, they do and acc
ording to Donald Rumsfeld justifiably so and when the campaign of extraordinary rendition was at its height, the countries I previously mentioned regularly tortured those rendered and under the direct instruction of the US.
Now it is not for me to make value judgements on what actions your nation may or may not consider necessary for national security or political expediency but those Americans who deny that these things are happening are at best naïve.
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- FluffyTechLv 61 decade agoFavourite answer
There are still plenty of terrorist groups we can fund to do our dirty work. We have been doing that for a long time, who knows maybe these revolutions are part of our plan to better our relations with the middle east. I wouldn't put ot past our country.
- KojakLv 71 decade ago
FIRST PFC Manning was NEVER in the custody of any foreign nation ..... nor was he tortured
He was held under suicide watch.....a standard form of protective incarceration designed to guarantee the prisoners safety....
SECOND.... The US military is not allowed to torture.....or be present when another nation is torturing
..and if we are present during a torture we are required to stop it if possible ; or leave
So called "Water Boarding" is not torture.....I have been "water boarded" .....so has over 2,000 US military personnel
FINALLY The USN is not responsible for the treatment of people returned to their own country authorities....in fact we have dozens of prisoners at Guantanamo precisely because their own country would execute them
As a retort you should list the "cruel and unusual punishment" Bradley Manning has endured
He was in a US Military facility in Kuwait..... Guantanamo.....and is now in Fort Leavenworth
He has possibly committed TREASON....a death penalty crime..... How would you suggest he be treated?
- LongJohnsLv 71 decade ago
How about the French - they seem pretty keen to be the US's new partner in crime.
