re: #47 recusancy

Exactly. And the other side of that is, if torture is allowed, there will be American servicemen who will torture a captive for no other reason then to just torture. War can change a person, and not always for the better.

F***, there were already American servicemen who seemed to want to torture a captive for no other reason than to torture a captive even when it it should in theory have been not allowed, see naked prisoner pyramid girl whose name escapes me at the moment….