Is ISIS bound by the Geneva convention.
The question you ask may be the most naive I've ever read, so here's one back atcha.
Do you think ISIS cares what we think?
Is the US of A bound by the Geneva convention? It would seem, not.
Reciprocity...
Quid pro quo...
It's a bitch...
Given America used torture before ISIS existed, perhaps you may have started the ball rolling.
Just a thought.
Hardly.
ISIS is merely the latest itch or rash that the disease known as 'Militant Islam' has erupted, like an angry boil.
Muslims have been employing the torture and beheading tactics currently used by ISIS, since the early days of its 'parent' cancer, Islam.
More than a thousand years before the settlement (much less independence) of America.
Not even a 'nice try', this time.
A boil is essentially an infection, and something must start that infection.
Since there was no major conflict between Islam and the west before America started to interfere in the middle east, one assumes America is the infection.
Apart from the Barbary pirates, clearly a criminal state sponsored group, not terrorists, can you name a single political attack on America or Americans that wasn't a direct result of American interference in any given country?
Propaganda tells us how the US is the guardian of this, that and the other, totally ignoring that country's atrocious record in every aspect of bad behaviour, including use of torture.
The US executed Japanese soldiers for doing the same as you've just admitted to doing.
Perhaps you can explain why Japanese soldiers were executed for the crime of torture by water boarding, but torture by water boarding is acceptable in the war against terror.
Then we can move on to making prisoners stand up on broken legs, and why that's acceptable.
Given the commander in chief of the time was aware of the CIA's activities, and did nothing to stop it, perhaps someone could explain why Bush shouldn't be arrested.
Nice opinion piece ... if you like lies and misrepresentations.
" ... no major conflict between Islam and the west... " You conveniently forget:
1979
Nov. 4, Tehran, Iran: Iranian radical students seized the U.S. embassy, taking 66 hostages. 14 were later released. The remaining 52 were freed after 444 days on the day of President Reagan's inauguration.
1982–1991
Lebanon: Thirty US and other Western hostages kidnapped in Lebanon by Hezbollah. Some were killed, some died in captivity, and some were eventually released. Terry Anderson was held for 2,454 days.
1983
April 18, Beirut, Lebanon: U.S. embassy destroyed in suicide car-bomb attack; 63 dead, including 17 Americans. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Oct. 23, Beirut, Lebanon: Shiite suicide bombers exploded truck near U.S. military barracks at Beirut airport, killing 241 marines. Minutes later a second bomb killed 58 French paratroopers in their barracks in West Beirut.
Dec. 12, Kuwait City, Kuwait: Shiite truck bombers attacked the U.S. embassy and other targets, killing 5 and injuring 80.
1984
Sept. 20, east Beirut, Lebanon: truck bomb exploded outside the U.S. embassy annex, killing 24, including 2 U.S. military.
Dec. 3, Beirut, Lebanon: Kuwait Airways Flight 221, from Kuwait to Pakistan, hijacked and diverted to Tehran. 2 Americans killed.
1985
April 12, Madrid, Spain: Bombing at restaurant frequented by U.S. soldiers, killed 18 Spaniards and injured 82.
June 14, Beirut, Lebanon: TWA Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome hijacked to Beirut by Hezbollah terrorists and held for 17 days. A U.S. Navy diver executed.
Oct. 7, Mediterranean Sea: gunmen attack Italian cruise ship,
Achille Lauro. One U.S. tourist killed. Hijacking linked to Libya.
Dec. 18, Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria: airports in Rome and Vienna were bombed, killing 20 people, 5 of whom were Americans. Bombing linked to Libya.
1986
April 2, Athens, Greece:A bomb exploded aboard TWA flight 840 en route from Rome to Athens, killing 4 Americans and injuring 9.
April 5, West Berlin, Germany: Libyans bombed a disco frequented by U.S. servicemen, killing 2 and injuring hundreds.
1988
Dec. 21, Lockerbie, Scotland: N.Y.-bound Pan-Am Boeing 747 exploded in flight from a terrorist bomb and crashed into Scottish village, killing all 259 aboard and 11 on the ground. Passengers included 35 Syracuse University students and many U.S. military personnel. Libya formally admitted responsibility 15 years later (Aug. 2003) and offered $2.7 billion compensation to victims' families.
1993
Feb. 26, New York City: bomb exploded in basement garage of
World Trade Center, killing 6 and injuring at least 1,040 others. In 1995, militant Islamist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 9 others were convicted of conspiracy charges, and in 1998, Ramzi Yousef, believed to have been the mastermind, was convicted of the bombing. Al-Qaeda involvement is suspected.
1995
April 19, Oklahoma City: car bomb exploded outside federal office building, collapsing wall and floors. 168 people were killed, including 19 children and 1 person who died in rescue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols later convicted in the antigovernment plot to avenge the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Tex., exactly 2 years earlier. (
See Miscellaneous Disasters.)
Nov. 13, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: car bomb exploded at U.S. military headquarters, killing 5 U.S. military servicemen.
1996
June 25, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: truck bomb exploded outside Khobar Towers military complex, killing 19 American servicemen and injuring hundreds of others. 13 Saudis and a Lebanese, all alleged members of Islamic militant group
Hezbollah, were indicted on charges relating to the attack in June 2001.
1998
Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and injuring about 4,500. 4 men connected with al-Qaeda 2 of whom had received training at
al-Qaeda camps inside
Afghanistan, were convicted of the killings in May 2001 and later sentenced to life in prison. A federal grand jury had indicted 22 men in connection with the attacks, including Saudi dissident
Osama bin Laden, who remained at large.
2000
Oct. 12, Aden, Yemen: U.S. Navy destroyer USS
Cole heavily damaged when a small boat loaded with explosives blew up alongside it. 17 sailors killed. Linked to
Osama bin Laden, or members of
al-Qaeda terrorist network.
2001
Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers. Islamic al-Qaeda terrorist group blamed. (
See September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism.)
Read more:
Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. or Against Americans | Infoplease.com Terrorist Attacks in the U.S. or Against Americans Infoplease.com
"The US executed Japanese soldiers for doing the same as you've just admitted to doing" - Again, you fail to note that the soldiers were executed because of war crimes, up to and including cannibalism. To try to equate cannibalism to waterboarding is, simply, intellectually dishonest and morally reprehensible. However, you might want to make note of the fact that the Japanese executed their own soldiers post-war because of torture. Waterboarding wasn't, and shouldn't be considered 'torture' .... and does not fit the definition of torture detailed in the Geneva Convention.
As for claims of 'torture', I'm sure that most AF pilots, who have gone thru escape and evasion courses, will tell you that these acts are so horrendous, so bestial, so bad, that we use them on our own people as training!!! Frankly, the report issued was a political hit piece by Democrats.
