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These are people we're fighting against because of a difference in morals and values, so we're going to further enforce our morals and values on P.O.W.'s by being "humanitarian" about our "fair" legal system? Sounds pretty American to me.
We may consider our legal system to be fair, and it's something that works for us, but what we consider fair may be totally different from our enemy's perception of fair. I mean seriously, can you imagine a U.S. soldier having to read someone their rights if they're going to detain someone who's got a grenade in his hand? I think there needs to be something a little more universal that gets the beliefs of all the countries in there, as opposed to the U.S. believing that we're the messiah and have to spread the good word all over the world.
We saw how well that turned out for Jesus.
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