| The Ghost of RubangB said: Huh, America considered it a war crime and convicted the Japanese for waterboarding in WW2. Funny how we get to change our definitions of war crimes when we commit them. |
Why not read the entire article, including the discussion page? You are really cherry picking your facts.
Here's something I bet you missed.
All special operations units in all branches of the U.S. military employ the use of waterboarding as part of survival school (SERE) training, to psychologically prepare soldiers for the eventuality of being captured by the enemy forces.[74]
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
