[NYC Republican]

But the connection these militants are making is most unfortunate and was absolutely preventable

How? Let's see this...

[Askel5]

=== How? Let's see this...

A nation that spends a millions of dollars on drones monitored 'round the clock in Alexandria which capture every detail of the Iraqi landscape can't outfit their POW camps with the same video monitors one finds in practically every bank, convenience store, ATM, and retail outlet in the US and damn near every public street of every major city in England?

A simple and relatively cheap step like this would not only have prevented the abuses in the first place but put paid to any rumors that we're not still a moral people and prosecuting the West's war against Islam with all due respect for life and attention to the basics of humane treatment of prisoners regardless whether all are entitled to the specific protections of Geneva or not.