Sen John McCain has sponsored a bill that would ensure that captured terrorists would treated in full accordance with the Geneva convention.
I'm all for it.
By the way, the Geneva Convention says that you execute combatants captured while out of uniform. And since that covers all terrorists, like I said, go for it.
Of course, McCain reads the Geneva convention a little bit differently. He ignores all the parts dealing with the treatment of "irregulars" and wants to treat all captured terrorists as soldiers. Of course, Iran, Syria, and the other terrorist breeding states haven't signed the Geneva Conventions, so I highly doubt our soldiers can expect similar restraint on the part of their captors.
But that doesn't matter to McCain.
Other Senators have signed on to support the measure, saying they are afraid our captured soldiers will be treated more harshly if we continue our current methods. I'm really not sure how it can get any harsher than decapitation on camera, but that's what they say they're afraid of.
Maybe the jihadis will force our soldiers to watch 12 straight hours of Rosie O'Donnell on the view before executing them. That would certainly be cruel punishment.
So, if you're keeping score at home, so far, we've shut down our monitoring of terrorist communications into the US, shut down our monitoring of their money flows, and now we want to shut down our programs to get information from captured terrorists.
It's hard to win a fight blindfolded and with both arms tied behind your back.
Posted by Rich at September 15, 2006 1:17 AM | TrackBack