Comment by VLM

The article tapdanced around the reasoning because it sounds so awful, but torture of civilians is permitted and when the USA does it, its now the greatest most ethical thing evar (although years ago only the bad guys tortured people, at least officially, sometimes thats how you knew they were the bad guys...). And torture in general isn't legal under rules of war. So thats why, at least on paper, we treat enemy soldiers better than our own people.