Lesson In Logic 101

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Required for some people.

DiManno: Disdain for U.S. led to Afghan torture fiasco

Perhaps convenient amnesia has set in. But few of those clawing at their faces today in angst and shame over who-knew-what-when-generated hysteria with regard to mistreatment of Afghan detainees have paused to recall how this mess originated.

It's because Canada picked Afghans over Americans as front-line allies.

This was not done out of respect for Afghan sovereignty – their right to assume custody of prisoners captured on their own soil. Damn well known from the start was the lay of the land in a war-ravaged country and medieval society: jails of unimaginable wretchedness, guards desensitized to violence and cruelty who'd never heard of the Geneva Conventions and would double over in laughter if informed of its contents, no justice system to speak of, and the overwhelming power exerted by the feared National Directorate of Security whose torturer-in-chief, while denying any physical abuse of detainees, once told the Star that "interrogation is not negotiation, it's not chatting over coffee."

It was a disastrous decision and, despite probing repeatedly at it over several years, I've never been able to ascertain, indisputably, who was to blame as primary architect of the policy, nor why it was thus constructed.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/afghanmission/article/729370--dimanno-disdain-for-u-s-led-to-afghan-torture-fiasco

No one is questioning why the previous arrangement was changed! Seems like some people make-up the logic once they have a pulpit!

The issue is how the new system was implemented. There was no reason that an erroneous decision had to be continued for more than three and a half years. If NATO didn't want to accept prisoners then NATO should have left the field. It is simple. Either you have rules or you don't. You either give your military the rules to work to or you don't. You don't let the military make the rules. You don't try and muddy the waters.