How grave is your breach?

Differences Settled in Deal Over Detainee Treatment - New York Times:

The proposed legislation outlaws under the War Crimes Act “grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions, including specific crimes such as murder, torture and rape, but also broad descriptions that might encompass a variety of crimes: maiming, extreme physical pain, trying to cause physical harm, and serious mental harm.

"Might" is the operative word here. "Wide open to interpretation," as the DOOFUS would say - and indeed has said about the Geneva Convention's "outrages upon personal dignity" phrase.

This so-called compromise looks more like an exercise in obfuscation to me.

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