Outmoded Morality

Someone else thinks the Bush Gang’s weasle explanations of why their prisoners in Cuba are not POWs is completely bogus. Given Bush’s disdain for all multilateral treaties, it’s surely no surprise that he seems to regard the Geneva Conventions as useless as well.

The US cannot go into conflict against its enemies and label them “unlawful combatants” to excuse it from playing by the rules – because if it does, so will many others. A dangerous precedent will be set and the Geneva conventions, which have attempted to retain a degree of peacetime morality in some of humanity’s darkest moments, may be lost forever.