The United States has always tried to lead by example. It has been a representation of fairness, equality, and democracy around the world. This changed with the attack on September 11, 2001 and the war against terrorism fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
When President George W. Bush made the decision in 2002 that the United States would not longer abide by the Geneva Conventions, the rules went by the wayside and anything was fair game in the art of war.
The Geneva Conventions was a binding international law that simply prohibits various forms of torture, humiliation, treatment that could be degrading to one's personal dignity and so forth. These standards were signed by the United States in 1949 as a protectorate for U.S. military men and women in the event of capture.
Should they become prisoners of war, the U.S. troops would be treated fairly according to the document. The war in Afghanistan was very different than the previous wars fought by Americans. The enemy was a terrorist group who hadn't signed the Geneva Conventions and therefor according to the Justice Department, should not receive the special treatments under the law, and they didn't...
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