The modern War on Terror is facing a unique and monumental challenge at the moment: how to handle terrorists that are captured. With the recent resurfacing of the debate and the compromise today between three Republican senators and the White House, I am beginning to worry what interrogation techniques we will have left.

In English class today, we were given a New York Times article on the meeting of the senators and the White House, and asked, among other things, to give our response to whether the US should change it’s obligations under the Geneva Conventions. I replied that we shouldn’t, for good reason: we don’t need to. The Geneva Convention does not apply to the current detainees. If you doubt this, here are direct quotes straight from the Conventions: (more…)