Geneva Convention/Torture ... how do they relate?

Anyone who talks about the Geneva Conventions, as if there were some actual meaning in those goofy documents, ought to have his head examined. If we followed the Geneva Conventions, then we would have to get rid of our strategic nuclear arsenal, since it is specifically built to incinerate millions of men, women, children and pets - you know, civilians and everything else. But that’s war and that’s why war is something to avoid, if possible, and why weaker nations used to think twice before attacking nations that could crush them in a second. … Used to.

Of course, no one with a half a brain would get rid of our strategic nuclear arsenal, because they understand what the reality of the world is - unlike the Geneva Conventions, the 4th installment of which was written after the horribly draining emotional experiences of WWII, when we decided that nothing like that should ever happen again … kind of like when we called the First World War, “The War to End All Wars”, which it fell woefully short of being, to be overly generous.

Just as people wake up with huge hangovers and swear to never drink again, we always end wars by trying to tell ourselves that we will not be pushed to those same actions, brutal and ruthless as the actions of war must be, though it is never our choice. It takes two to tango, but only one to start a war. The Geneva Conventions are a utopian fantasy, just like the UN, and totally unworkable in the real world. We used to understand this, but since the fall of the USSR, Americans have gotten exponentially dumber about reality and what it requires. As things stand now, our enemies’ only defense is our own self-restraint. That’s really smart …

Anytime someone mentions the Geneva Conventions to me, I laugh in their face and ask them to tell me the last war that followed such rules. We all know the answer to that. Everybody does. One thing is for sure, any nation that would follow the Geneva Conventions is guaranteed to lose, or, at best, to have the war drag on for so long and be so costly as to leave itself with nothing but a pyrrhic victory, that will soon be eclipsed by the next leg of the same war … until we do finally lose. You know how Bernoulli trials go. And that’s just downright stupid and not the purpose of our government (or any government’s obligations to its own people).