Caring for Terrorists
Richard Mintier, in his latest column for the New York Post, thinks we're handling our terrorist "detainees" incorrectly at Gitmo.
Islamofascists use our own rules to kill us. Mintier cites several ways in his article. Here's one.
Islamofascists may yet win the battle as we take great pains to maintain the moral standards this country holds dear. But if they win the battle they will surely lose the war and reap utter destruction. Our nation and others who think they like freedom (they don't active love it or the state of denial of the great peril we face wouldn't exist) will not fully be left to dhimmitude. In the end those who truly love freedom will rise up in terrible anger using all the tools and wrath they can muster to win the war. And what a bloody scene it will be.
How many lives were saved by the decision to unleash atomic devastation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Hundreds of thousands of American and Allied soldiers and millions of Japanese.
How far will we allow our enemy to push us while practicing self restraint before we are forced to wage war with like means to our enemy?
America has never faced an enemy who has so ruthlessly broken all of the rules of war - yet never has an enemy been treated so well.He thinks we're too kind to them. Ya THINK?
The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.In a related subject, Captain Ed at Captain's Quarters asks Since When Has Geneva Protected Our Troops?
Striking the balance between these two goods (humane treatment, foreknowledge of deadly attacks) is difficult, but the Bush administration seems to lean too far in the direction of the detainees.
In this war, this argument seems particularly despicable. We have been treated to images of broken and tortured bodies of our soldiers on television and the Internet, courtesy of the animals who oppose us in this war. No one suffers under the delusion that captured soldiers will ever return alive, let alone receive Geneva-approved treatment. Our enemy doesn't even fight according to the GC, so why should they treat our soldiers any better than they treat the civilians they target for their attacks?Mintier and Captain Ed address the fundamental question of this generaation's Great War. How can we fight using moral standards which are totally ignored by our enemy?
Islamofascists use our own rules to kill us. Mintier cites several ways in his article. Here's one.
Detainees use the envelopes sent to them by their attorneys to pass messages. (Some 1,000 lawyers represent 440 prisoners, all on a pro bono basis, with more than 18,500 letters in and out of Gitmo in the past year.) Guards are not allowed to look inside these envelopes because of "attorney-client privilege" - even if they know the document inside is an Arabic-language note written by a prisoner to another prisoner and not a letter to or from a lawyer.Henry V, in Shakespeare's play by that name, addresses the people of Harfleur in a scene bearing elements of what may lie ahead.
That's right: Accidentally or not, American lawyers are helping al Qaeda prisoners continue to plot.
Therefore, you men of Harfleur,Our soldiers are now well restrained. When they do slip into villainy our own authorities are quick to take corrective action. I have no doubt that some few acts of evil are commited by a very few of our service members. That is especially amazing in the face of the vile disregard for humanity evidenced by our foes.
Take pity of your town and of your people,
Whiles yet my soldiers are in my command;
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds
Of heady murder, spoil and villany.
If not, why, in a moment look to see
The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters;
Your fathers taken by the silver beards,
And their most reverend heads dash'd to the walls,
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes,
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls confused
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of Jewry
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen.
What say you? will you yield, and this avoid,
Or, guilty in defence, be thus destroy'd?
Islamofascists may yet win the battle as we take great pains to maintain the moral standards this country holds dear. But if they win the battle they will surely lose the war and reap utter destruction. Our nation and others who think they like freedom (they don't active love it or the state of denial of the great peril we face wouldn't exist) will not fully be left to dhimmitude. In the end those who truly love freedom will rise up in terrible anger using all the tools and wrath they can muster to win the war. And what a bloody scene it will be.
How many lives were saved by the decision to unleash atomic devastation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Hundreds of thousands of American and Allied soldiers and millions of Japanese.
How far will we allow our enemy to push us while practicing self restraint before we are forced to wage war with like means to our enemy?
