A perfect illustration as to why torture is wrong.

A young soldier of ours, one Pfc Bergdahl, captured by the taliban is shown on a video making remarks about "how he wished we could all go home and stop wasting our lives in Afganistan" has been on the news lately. He is obviously expressing messages his captures want him to say, using him as a propaganda tool, which is against the Geneva convention and international law of some sort. Not that they care, I doubt they (the taliban) signed it or even really know much about it. I hope this young man is released and soon, but I have my doubts. What strikes me as funny is how we go back to our rightious Geneva convention when it is convenient when it suits our purpose. Now can people understand that our use of torture techniques such as waterboarding was wrong for so many reasons other that just plain useless? I wonder if this young man were waterboarded, would we consider it to be acceptable treatment of captured prisoners? This whole episode reminds me of the recent Oprah show which featured Ted Haggard, the preacher who was paying young men for sex and doing drugs express outrage over homosexuals. Let those without sin cast the first stone....and let those who sin, or condone it shut the hell up.