Don't flout Geneva – or the tables could easily be turned

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Author(s)	Niall Ferguson
Source	The Daily Telegraph
Date	October 1, 2006
URL	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/01/do0101.xml
Quote	"As Winston Churchill insisted throughout the war, treating PoWs well is wise, if only to increase the chances that your own men will be well treated if they too are captured. Even in the Second World War, there was in fact a high degree of reciprocity: the British treated Germans PoWs well and were well treated by the Germans in return; the Germans treated Russian PoWs abysmally and got their bloody deserts when the tables were turned."

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This item argues against the position Compromise bill should be passed on the topic Military Commissions Act of 2006.