Right,
1. I am of the opinion that prisoners should be treated farily and justly, and according to the conventions that we helped create. We must strive to maintain civilised standards as an example.
2. Many of the prisoners subject to the alledged abuse are prisoners because there are alledgedly involved in the insurgency, taking the lives of allied troops.
3. There is a fine line between a bit of roughing up (fair enough) and flagrant abuse (unacceptable). This is sometimes easily crossed when you or one of your mates has just been shot at.
4. We seem all too willing to demonise the ALLEDGED perpetrators of this "abuse," without knowing all the facts.
My question is this. Why does the media, and hence the general public, seem to side with the enemy in this conflict?