Interesting...

Lately, I have been listening to Nightline's podcast. Basically, it's just the previous night's show's audio. It has become one of my favorite podcasts. BTW, if you not listening to podcasts, check it out. You can get to it through iTunes 4.9+.

Anyway, the one I'm listening to right now, is about a film maker who was in Iraq legally and was arrested by the U.S. military mistakenly. He was denied his rights both human and legal and it took 53 days before he was released.

Here's the point. It doesn't matter if you are against this war or not in this instance. Yes, people are trying to kill us. But you can detain people without abusing them. I'm really not that upset that this guy was wrongfully detained, I'm ticked that he was left in the sun for hours to dehydrate and that evidence was fabricated, making his imprisonment longer than it need be.

It all comes down to this; if you have no moral value system going into a war; then you can rationalize any behavior as what is required to win the war. To me, that's unacceptable.