Reply #7: Waffen SS [View All]

"No. What I'm saying is we had better embrace the horror of war. If you aren't tough, if you don't pull
out all the stops, you lose." So all of the conventions created in the wake of the Second World War - the
Geneva Conventions, the very concept of war crimes - these are all just polite fictions to be crumpled?
"Of course. The Seventh Infantry Division in 1945 used to drive their tanks around with the
heads of defeated Japanese solders displayed proudly on the front. That's what we need to
train our present-day soldiers to be." Returning to Vietnam, he adds that the French -- the colonial
power preceding the Americans -- succeeded in Vietnam because "they were using the Foreign Legion,
then manned almost completely by veterans from the most disciplined, ruthlessly efficient practitioners of
all-out warfare in history: the Waffen SS."

Kabul vigilante appeal under way

Three Americans jailed for up to 10 years for torturing Afghans
and running a private jail in Kabul have begun their appeal.

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Branded by the US as a bounty hunter, Idema has said his work
was approved by Afghan and US authorities.

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The Americans' US lawyers were not present at the hearing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4031851.stm

Get this...
The Americans are serving their sentences in Kabul's Pul-e
Charkhi prison. They have a heated and carpeted cell with
satellite television.