Submitted by Wilm E. Donath, Jan 3, 2008 08:31

If you are a soldier, and information comes to you that saves your life, do you care how it was obtained? In wars between nations, which signed the Geneva accords, torture is illegal: yet all kinds of psychological methods were used to obtain information. Allied airmen captured by the Germans had sleeping quarters, which at one moment were cold, and next turned unbearably hot. Probably not illegal by the Geneva accords, but still a form of torture. If we are fighting an opponent for whom the Geneva convention does not exist, are we required to abide by it? In this circumstance the only question relates to the effectiveness of the interrogation method. That this would be a partisan issue is beyond belief.

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