Vic, my regular email debater sent me the following email. He’s skeptical about Dr. Miles claim that the beheadings started shortly after the abuses at the prisons started and so was his buddy who he quoted in his email back to me.
“Harry:
One of my law school classmates responded to me as follows, regarding my message to him that appears farthest below in what I quote as follows:
“Vic:
I don’t know exactly what the author was talking about, maybe if you limit it to beheadings of Americans in Iraq it is technically correct. But to suggest that it was something extreme that developed in reaction to the horrors of the prison photos is nonsense. The Wall Street Journal reporter was beheaded in Pakistan long before that. For beheadings and Islam see:
http://www.meforum.org/article/713
Lance’I don’t believe everything that I read on the internet, is true. However, neither am I inclined to believe that everything that is said on Minnesota Public Radio, is true.
Vic”
Vic and his friend might be right but the point Dr. Miles was making is still valid. Allowing and encouraging American troops to make life miserable for detainees only hardened the detainees against our goals in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its a shame that the Bush Administration overruled the good sense of the Pentagon and put the Geneva Conventions on the shelf.
