[Real Cynic No More]

Well, I think that the Geneva convention should not apply to treatment of terrorists in captivity. Since they aren't recognized as a nation and are thus not signatory to the Geneva treaty, we should modify that charter so that only recognized government parties can reap any of the humanitarian benefits. In that way, the victimized can target any governments/countries that commit these types of atrocities.

They saw how our citizenry went gah-gah over the relatively mild treatment of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and perceived us as weak. They know that the world will condemn us for that, while they go on torturing and murdering non-combatants.

The world community who are victims of the terrorist actions should renounce the Geneva Convention and put all terrorists on notice that they cannot rely on individual state/country's laws to provide them with humane treatment when they are captured.

That's the way to stop their atrocities in their tracks.

[narses]

"Well, I think that the Geneva convention should not apply to treatment of terrorists in captivity."

It does not.