Should civilized nations use "Enhanced Interrogation" techni

[Occhidiangela]

No. The United Nations Convention Against Torture standard is "severe mental or physical pain." It also bans "cruel, inhuman or degrading" treatment. There are plenty of interrogation methods, whereby you "force someone to do something against their will" by giving up information, that are neither torture nor otherwise banned.

In other words, the country club standard is required.

Sorry, UN is in epic fail mode yet again. (And as a senior member of that club, the US is in part to blame for that. They let pretty much any old dog and cat into the club. Part of the problem, about to be replicated in NATO.)

I note from your citing of the regs the nebulous terms it uses, open for political interpretation.

Funny old thing, when the US applies that option, interpretation, I hear the usual suspects scream "war crime" at the top of their lungs.

Sorry, UN regs are nice as bird cage liner.

Quelle surprise

Occhi