Maybe I'm an asshole, but I don't mind it when a high level terrorist is captured and sent off to a secret CIA prison. They are not American citizens, they are not members of a foreign army, therefore they should get no protections under the Geneva Conventions. Do you think that we would be given the same rights? Do you think that our soldiers wouldn't be tortured and killed?
Abu-Ghraib and Guantanamo are light compared to what they would be getting in other places around the world. They are given food, medical treatment, religious materials. I don't remember anyone in the World Trade Center getting treated with kid gloves. I don't remember anyone on the commuter trains in Spain getting Geneva protections. I certainly don't recall civilians anywhere during any of these terrorist attacks being spared because they were civilians.
If you want to cause harm to innocent men, women and children because your twisted logic says so, you get no protections. You deserve nothing more then having every ounce of information extracted from you from what ever means necessary and then be sent home in a body bag.
We've been coddling these people who want you and I dead for too long. It's time to take the gloves off and take them to the mat. It's time to start imposing our strength where we need to and use diplomacy where we have to. Withdrawal from territories gives them confidence. Just keep it up for as long as possible and the Americans will leave. UN sanctions gives them a reason to tell their people that we're the bad guys. Pakistan is only now starting to see that we're the good guys only because they had a massive earthquake a little more then a year ago and we came with food and medical supplies. 80,000 people were killed and they hated us up until that point. Now people are starting to ask "The Americans came to help, where's Osama? Where's his help?"
It's sad that 80,000 people had to die for people opinions about us to start changing. Do you think that they would have a better opinion of us now if the earthquake and our aid hadn't happened? We give billions in aid every year. What do you suppose would happen if we cut off aid to any country who wasn't 100% behind us? Other countries like to give lip service to say "we give aid just as much as the Americans." but they never come through, or only give a fraction of what they promised. We are #1 in terms of foreign aid. We sent hundreds of thousands of troops to every corner of the world to help fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. And what do we get for our troubles? Our leader is compared to Hitler. Our country's favorable view is at an all time low. It's now trendy to bash America. Hollywood types aren't helping either. They love to go overseas, make a few speeches and make themselves feel high and mighty at the expense of those of us who work hard to make our country great.
Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com
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