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What difference should it make if those techniques are not considered torture by our country?
Shouldn't US citizens be subject to them?
if you belong to an organization that goes outside the rules of war, you should be stripped of US citizenship and left to the dogs.
That is the point
Who gets to decide what an "unlawful combatant" is?
We never gave them a trial, never let them see the evidence against them or face their accusor. We just captured them, hauled them to some remote outpost and began torturing them
What stops another nation from doing to our citizens what we have done to others?
They scoop up a US citizen, torture them until they confess to being "unlawful combatants" and then are as justified in using torture as we claim to be
We didn't "torture" all of them we interrogated those who may have had more information.
So you have no problem if those same techniques were used against yourself or your loved ones if they were arrested abroad?
You don't arrest unlawful combatants. Arrest implies custody by whatever judicial system is in the jurisdiction. Considering we don't interrogate tourists here, I would expect the same when travelling.
Why should you care?
You are travelling abroad and get picked up on bogus charges. You get declared to be an "unlawful combatant" and are tortured until you confess to being one
Why should the US try to protect you? That is the standard we have set
Torture has a Golden Rule: Treat others as you expect your own people to be treated