1 posted on
05/27/2005 10:23:20 PM PDT by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
Captured unlawful combatants are not entitled to POW status because such men are associated with groups that do not comply with even the most basic law of war requirements such as the prohibition on targeting civilians. They do not enjoy special privileges under the Geneva Conventions, although customary international law provides that they must be treated humanely.
Actually, the traditional rules of war call for a quick execution for those who engage in the likes of terrorism, or in older terminology spies and saboteurs, pirates, etc.
I'm not sure direct causation can be proven, it is interesting to note that the more the West has shown itself willing to excuse terrorism, the more terrorism the West has faced.
While I am not going to make the truly traditional case which would involve reprisals for acts of terrorism, clearly the notion common on the Left that we should coddle those who actually engage in terrorism against us is absurd with even the most basic knowledge of history...
2 posted on
05/27/2005 10:37:19 PM PDT by
swilhelm73
(Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. --Lord Acton)
To: CHARLITE; Happygal; Colosis; Black Line; Cucullain; SomeguyfromIreland; Youngblood; Fergal; Cian; ..
4 posted on
05/28/2005 3:42:34 AM PDT by
Irish_Thatcherite
(Orwellian Relativism: All philosophies are equal, but some philosophies are more equal than others.)
To: CHARLITE
5 posted on
05/28/2005 5:09:11 AM PDT by
RippleFire
("It's a joke, son!")
To: CHARLITE; headsonpikes; beyond the sea; E.G.C.; Military family member; TexasTransplant; ...
Criticism is the cheap way to suggest your own superiority, and Amnesty International is a group which exists to criticize. IOW, AI is simply a form of journalism like The New York Times. Consequently it should be no surprise that it is, like The New York Times, a left-wing organization. Journalism criticizes governments and politicians for the things that they do - but journalism never has the authority and responsibility to actually take action, and be responsibility for results. Journalism has front men (so-called "moderate" politicians like Bill Clinton) for that role.
Why Broadcast Journalism is
Unnecessary and Illegitimate
6 posted on
05/28/2005 5:55:41 AM PDT by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters but PR.)
To: CHARLITE; conservatism_IS_compassion
Let the American-hating LOONS at A.I. run Guantanamo for a few weeks.............. and we'll see how it goes.
;-)
7 posted on
05/28/2005 5:58:48 AM PDT by
beyond the sea
(Sounds of laughter, shades of life are ringing through my open ears exciting and inviting me)
To: CHARLITE
In addition, the executive director of Amnesty International USA has called on foreign governments to seize and prosecute American officials traveling abroadAmnesty Insanity International.
9 posted on
05/28/2005 6:04:13 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(The Republican Party is the France of politics.)
To: CHARLITE
[...which are applied to every included state: (1) whether the death penalty has been retained; (2) whether the International Criminal Court treaty has been ratified; and (3) whether the U.N. Womens Convention, and its Optional Protocol, has been ratified. All of these criteria involve controversial political issues where there is fundamental disagreement between right and left and...]
Another liberal and feminist deceived organization guilty of revisionist neo communist deception.
11 posted on
05/28/2005 6:11:07 AM PDT by
wgeorge2001
(And the Lord shall be King over all the earth;in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.)
To: CHARLITE
13 posted on
05/28/2005 9:36:37 AM PDT by
King Prout
(blast and char it among fetid buzzard guts!)
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