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Cruel Inhumane Degrading Treatment, for one. I still haven't formulated a strong position on this.
On one hand, these terrorists are disregarding the norms and customs of law and war, as such, they should not have the right to claim any protection founded on notions of a fair war. (Interestingly, these same arguments were made by crusaders--norms would be followed until they ran in to 'heretics' and 'non believers.') Plain and simple, these criminals are sub-human and them and any associates should be given a dose of their own medicine.
On the other hand, we're supposed to be an enlightened society which respects humanitarian and humane rights. It's hard to take a country which claims to intervene in an oil rich state to promote 'humanitarian concerns' while the same country is doing substantially the same thing to their own prisoners.
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Originally Posted by Lieber Code on the laws of war
"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to God."
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