Making Friends with the Enemy

An American surgeon is preparing to perform an amputation on a prisoner in Cuba. This is a very vital operation, and can be very hard on a person emotionally as well as physically. The prisoner asks the doctor if he will sit and have tea after the surgery with him. For some reason, the doctor feels obligated to do him this small favor. I read this assignment, and I was utterly disgusted by it. For no reason should any prisoner of war, especially after the devastation that took place on September 11th 2001, have any favors of any sort done for him.
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