(subtitled) "Sharper than a serpent's toof...."
My daughter (obviously brain-washed a few months ago after being invited to a private screening [la-de-dah] of Michael Moore's Fahrenhype-tripe, retrograded from being an independent-thinking realist to a far-left, tunnel-visioned A.B.B. [anybody but bush] liberal-cajoling dimocrat) is still the apple of my eye. In all things a-political, that is.
In an extended online debate, we FINALLY agreed (other than about her tunnel-visioned ABB gag-a-goat mentality -- and I know where she got THAT gene ....) that ONE core difference (at least in that discussion) concerned the application of Geneva Conventions to captured terrorists.
"... but Mommmmmm," she whined, "You and Dad were both in Nam. Didn't we learn anything there about the treatment of prisoners?"
"Yes, child-of-your-father. We learned many things in Nam.... But if you want to discuss the treatment of prisoners, talk with your [POW] Uncle ______. Ask him if he was afforded any provisions of the Geneva Conventions. But back to your point .... uhhh -- what was it again?"
"I just think that we should honor the Geneva Conventions or release the prisoners."
"You are assuming that either the Viet Cong or today's terrorists signed or agreed to these Conventions?"
"They have to sign? Hummmmmm.... what about a mutual military code of conduct?"
"Did either the Viet Cong or do today's terrorists HAVE a "military" code of conduct?"
"Never thought about it." <long pause> "Mom?"
"Yes?"
"Will things change?"
"Not until terrorists agree to mutual conventions on the treatment of prisoners, if that's what you mean."
"So until then, terrorists continue to torture and behead while we follow our own codes of conduct?"
Yes. Unless you want us to treat captured terrorists as ideological pawns, run them through torture chambers, blindfold and subsequently behead or execute them."
"I don't want that, Mom."
"Nor do I, daughter-of-mine."
Geneva Convention: noun
One of a series of agreements concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, wounded and dead in battle first made at Geneva, Switzerland in 1864 and subsequently accepted in later revisions by most nations.
One of a series of agreements concerning the treatment of prisoners of war and of the sick, wounded and dead in battle first made at Geneva, Switzerland in 1864 and subsequently accepted in later revisions by most nations.