Last week we had to watch Democrats, having been kicked in the pants and out of
control of the U.S. Senate, put their vindictive selves on display again by making
“news” with a last parting shot at George W. Bush (and the United States): a
“torture” report that had less to do with torture and more to do with politics.
Exactly what is torture? I always thought torture was
something that left irreparable physical or psychological damage. Pulling
fingernails. Ripping tendons. Breaking bones. The kinds of things that were done
to John McCain in Vietnam.
How many people would volunteer to be tortured? Yet how many
have volunteered to be waterboarded, just to prove how BAD it is? Some have
even volunteered twice. Waterboarding is uncomfortable, coercive, and effective
– but it isn’t torture.
Let’s get real. The people we’re fighting RAPE women, BEHEAD
people, BURY children ALIVE. I’m supposed to be outraged that we’re making some
of them listen to loud music? Reading them Harry
Potter? Or make them stay awake past their bedtime? REALLY?
This is an extension of the misguided notion that if we just
show the terrorists that we’re nice, then they’ll be nice, too - sort of a
COOKIES AND NAPTIME with terrorists. Well, we’ve done our mea culpa, ISIS – your
turn (hear that sound? Didn’t know they had crickets in the Middle East, did
you?)
Might doesn’t make right – but you want might so you when
you’re right you can defend it. Right doesn’t make might. Being right doesn’t
make the bad guys stop trying to kill you.
For those who believe we should treat our enemies in the WAR
ON TERROR by the GENEVA CONVENTION: do you realize that that would dictate that
we line them up and shoot them for violating that same convention? We are
dealing with people who indiscriminately (and often intentionally) kill or put
innocents in harm’s way. There are other parts of the Geneva Convention that
they also violate, such as being in uniform.
WAR IS HELL, but sometimes you have to fight or die. When did
having superiority in technological weapons become a crime? Why do we handicap
ourselves and increase the risk to our own people? We’re at war whether we like
it or not; don’t engage in the arrogance of underestimating our opponents.
There is NO RATIONAL REASON to even up the odds. Are we afraid that we might
make our enemies feel bad? Hurt their precious self-esteem? These are people
who are trying to kill us – best to treat them that way.
Just
saying…
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