Why? - Edit 1
Before modification by Isaac at 30/01/2011 05:03:59 PM
So you want to compare a pre-Geneva treatment of PoWs to what a regime does to his own citizens?
I do believe America was part of Britain at the time, so 'his own citizens' would apply to them too.
Does that mean we should raise that rug under which were swept those numerous massacres of Loyalists during the Revolutionary War, a number that is considerably higher than those who died on the HMS Jersey? Or skip along down the historical road to Andersonville, which was several degrees worse than what was encountered on that prison ship?
Not a 'biggest bastard' competition, this is utterly irrelevant to the point, if non-loyalist factions in Egypt commit atrocities it doesn't justify the current regimes past and present crimes. I'm also not sure why your bringing up in your second bit other British atrocities or whether they were worse, the point is not that Britain was some evil empire, they are generally considered to have been not particularly bad compared to others, I'm not disputing that, I'm disputing Legolas's 'walk in the park' comment.