Boy, just makes your chest swell with pride as an American, dunnit?

Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report - Yahoo! News:

"New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will reportedly omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans 'humiliating and degrading treatment.'

Citing unidentified but knowledgeable military officials, the Los Angeles Times said the step would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift by the US government away from strict adherence to international human rights standards."