And We're the Barbarians?

To listen to the nonsensical debate about how we should treat terrorists taken from the field of battle going on between the far and not so far political left one might wonder who the real barbarians are.  While radical Islamic extremists are rioting in the streets, burning churches, shooting nuns, beheading “infidels”, blowing up school children, seeking nuclear weapons to annihilate Israel, threatening to kill the Pope and just being generally violent over being called violent, we are sitting around debating if sleep deprivation, eating McDonalds food and playing loud music are torture and how to fight a kinder and gentler war.

The United States Senate thanks to Republicans like John McCain who have resisted an attempt to define exactly what is “torture” under the vague and incredibly broad Geneva Conventions.  This is no real surprise considering McCain and others have proven they don’t really care about America by proposing flagrant violations of the First Amendment and passing them into law.  Normally it takes no real problem at all to get Congress to act and pass a law of some sort to infringe upon the liberties of Americans.  However when it comes to giving our military personnel the boundaries of what they can and cannot do, there is a lot of balking going on about the rights of terrorists.

There is a lot of whining about how defining what we will allow might somehow destroy the good will between us and our enemies (i.e. the terrorists) and might endanger our soldiers captured abroad.  I’m sorry, but I don’t think that you can make that argument. Not when our soldiers captured by the enemy in this war on Islamic Terror are already being decapitated and their bodies are bobby trapped to kill those that retrieve the corpses.  I hate to break it to you but they are not going to treat our soldiers better than that.