We already have evidence of what would happen if we try to act "civil" with the terrorists...
When it was rumored that a guard at Gitmo flushed a Koran (that the American people paid for)...19 people died in riots in Pakistan...in THEIR minds...that constitutes "torture"...
How in the heck can our military work to keep our country safe...and not get themselves killed or court-martialed playing by those rules...
This enemy is nothing like the enemies we had when the Geneva Convention was signed...they KNOW how we have worked in the past...and THEIR handbooks have the ways to take advantage of our "honor"...
It is kind of like the 2004 election...the dems put out a voters handbook months before the election, telling the dems to "cry voter intimidation" even if there is none...just to plant the seed in the public's mind...
The terrorists have been reading the dems handbook...and every little slight will be used to cry "torture"...and McCain and gang will shake their fingers at Rummy and Bush and say....NO, NO, NO...we told you, you can't do that.
Of course you're right. Lest there be any misunderstanding, I'd like to run a quote for you guys. This is from "The Myth of Islamic Tolerance: How Islamic Law Treats Non-Moslems" edited by Robert Spencer (Prometheus Books, 2005). From the foreward by Ibn Warraq: " Islam is a totalitarian ideology that aims to control the religious, social, and political life of mankind in all its aspects . . . And I mean Islam, I do not accept some spurious distiction between Islam and 'Islamic Fundamentalism' or 'Islamic terrorism.' The terrorists who planted bombs in Madrid; those responsible for the deaths of more than two thousand people on September 11, 2001, in New York and Washington, DC; and the ayatollahs of Iran were and are acting canonically; their actions reflect the teachings of Islam, whether found in the Qur'an, in the acts and sayings of the Prophet, or Islamic law based on them." For example: "Q. 8.12: 'I will instill terror (interesting choice of words, imagine that, terror!) into the hearts of the Infidels, strike off their heads then (on videotape, no less), and strike off from them every fingertip.' I can't believe how passive so many people are in the face of such unremitting evil.
Exactly right. And that was a lie and the Marine didn't even do that with a koran. If the liberals who are so against this war and want to coddle the terrorists get back in power, we are toast. I wouldn't give this country ten years if it's liberals making policy and military decisions.