Your understanding of English is as good or better than most on here.
Yes you are right regarding this case, I stated many months ago on this forum that if the actions of the Bush administration regarding torture were treated as the US would treat them if enacted by a foreign government against them, they would have quite rightly been the subject of a series of war crimes trials.
We all know that many things happen in time of war that we are less than proud of, in the past these things were able to be concealed by the victors and went largely unpunished, however today's modern communications and the advent of things like cameras in mobile phones make the man in the street aware of what is going on thousands of miles away in a split second. The old days are gone.
In my opinion, the questionable behaviour of the previous administration and in particular the NeoCons lost the battle for world wide acceptance for our cause, before it even got off the ground.
AP - The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh interrogation tactics against terrorism suspects, the U.N.'s top anti-torture envoy said Friday.
