US air-war doctrine replaces torture with indiscriminate bombing

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The point I want to make is not that the United States is powerful enough to flout international conventions with impunity. It is that while U.S. military doctrine makes breaches of the Geneva Convention more likely, it makes actual cases of torture less likely because and to the extent that a direct encounter between individual . — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 616