Time to ask the question yet again

Every time I read something like this...

It is not our soldiers who should be blamed, but our government for not following the sensible, humane example of the Dutch and the British, who monitor those they hand over to Afghan authorities.

...I ask myself: has anyone seen any data at all that suggests the words written into the Dutch and British agreements actually prevent mistreatment at the hands of Afghan jailors?

I mean, paragraph three of our own detainee transfer agreement states that "The Participants will treat detainees in accordance with the standards set out in the Third Geneva Convention." Just because the Dutch or British have written something else into their versions doesn't mean their safeguards are working any better or worse than ours.

Isn't anyone other than me curious to know how the facts on the ground stack up against the rhetoric? Or are other nations' agreements nothing more than a convenient club with which to bludgeon our current government and the soldiers who serve it?

Globe & Mail, once more unto to the breach!