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Warfighting and Torture

Torture is not permitted in full-on war by the Geneva Conventions. In asymmetric warfare, resorting to torture indicates a government unable to cope with terrorism without breaking its own laws, and abandoning the values it's trying to preserve in its counter-terrorist campaign. In countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, already well-used to brutality, this is a slippery slope down which we shouldn't even be looking. (This is a brief summary. Please click the link to read the full article)

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It's an RSS feed from his site set up by the COs, and the debate has moved on if you take alook at the Bush thread
 

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