Comments on: Taliban reportedly waterboarding captured US soldiers http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/15/taliban-waterboarding/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Wakefield Tolbert http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/15/taliban-waterboarding/comment-page-1/#comment-10428 Wakefield Tolbert Sun, 17 May 2009 23:38:01 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=9630#comment-10428 It is satire if for no other reason than anyone knows the darker reality (for those actually given, as my good Lefty pals are on Culture, err....Science Blogs to moral equivalency of all forms) that any captured soldier will be beaten, skinned, gutted, and decapitated. In fact, this has happened, verifiable in no small measure to the dozens of gory snuff films available for download by internet ghouls. As to those nasty "facts of the matter" regarding Geneva, it HAS come to the attention of some (though not yet the USSC) that Geneva has a dark side as well, and does apply to uniformed officers, though not the Taliban. The ACLU does not understand this, no, but the point is that this tonque-in-cheek reporter over at Balkinization surely knows that this must make the piece all that more funny in his mind. Not that Geneva did us any good in Vietnam and in the Pacific theater in WWI. It didn't. Just ask those poor guys who watched, not waterboarding and spritzes of water put up the nose, but rather burnings, sexual mutilation, and mass executions in front of your pals. Yeah--what a hoot. It is satire if for no other reason than anyone knows the darker reality (for those actually given, as my good Lefty pals are on Culture, err….Science Blogs to moral equivalency of all forms) that any captured soldier will be beaten, skinned, gutted, and decapitated. In fact, this has happened, verifiable in no small measure to the dozens of gory snuff films available for download by internet ghouls.

As to those nasty “facts of the matter” regarding Geneva, it HAS come to the attention of some (though not yet the USSC) that Geneva has a dark side as well, and does apply to uniformed officers, though not the Taliban. The ACLU does not understand this, no, but the point is that this tonque-in-cheek reporter over at Balkinization surely knows that this must make the piece all that more funny in his mind.

Not that Geneva did us any good in Vietnam and in the Pacific theater in WWI. It didn’t. Just ask those poor guys who watched, not waterboarding and spritzes of water put up the nose, but rather burnings, sexual mutilation, and mass executions in front of your pals.

Yeah–what a hoot.

]]> By: David Steven http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/15/taliban-waterboarding/comment-page-1/#comment-10280 David Steven Sat, 16 May 2009 08:24:33 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=9630#comment-10280 Satire, surely. Satire, surely.

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