MDavis, let me give you a hypothetical scenario, suppose the people in custody, who were by the way terrorists, insurgents, etc… Not “army regulars” suppose they were being subjected to some psychological warfare under the guise of humiliation, sleep depravation, etc… And suppose that you’re there “caring” for them. You with me? Now suppose your buddies, people you knew personally were killed by these terrorists, hiding from churches and the like, sniping, hiding their faces, planting roadside bombs, etc… We know for a fact that these men were involved in this type of activity. Are you still with me? Now suppose that by degrading these “men”, and diminishing their capacity to resist interrogation, that you gain information with respect to who is committing the “real” atrocities, who is conducting the bombings, who is running around cutting people’s heads off? What then? Suppose with this information, you could potentially stop future attacks on your fellow soldiers? End hostilities sooner? Return peace and stability to that war torn nation? Do you maintain that there is simply no possible scenario where you could agree with what was done?
Let’s take it a step further, suppose we had people in custody before 9/11 who had knowledge of the plans. Would you still feel so strongly that we should not parade them around naked in front of each other and put underwear on their heads? To get information to prevent the death of innocent thousands of civilians? I’m curious given the aforementioned VERY LIKELY set of circumstances. After all, these people weren’t suspected or alleged bad guys, they ARE bad guys. Keep in mind also that while you may be a good and decent person who means no harm to others, as sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, there are people in this world who wake up every day and think of ways to kill you and me and our families. That is their number one goal. And if a couple of towel headed, gun wheedling, IED making, American hating, face hiding, camel jockeying, throat cutting, WMD hiding, mass murdering, plane crashing, freedom hating, Muslim terrorists, card carrying Al-Queda members have to be “humiliated” to save ONE AMERICAN LIFE, then I say, please LET ME BE FIRST IN LINE TO CHECK HIS PROSTRATE!!!