...don't try to understand them, just rope, throw and brand them.. (From the tv series, Rawhide)

Well folks, that may work with cows, but cows don't shoot at us.

In our culture, what was done to those prisoners was not torture, BUT, in THEIR culture, is WAS! And that is what they are reacting to.
We are so damed ethnocentric, we are blind to the mores' of other cultures, and this is an excellent example of our ignorance.
Bush promised no more torture chambers such as Saddam had...oh yes, another lie.

Doug, and others who support this barbarism, what would you do to end this conflict? I hope you are not stupid enough to think a military victory is possible.