Anyone who worries that we are torturing our prisoners isn't a serious person. You can try to engage them in a serious argument but you aren't going to get one.
If you think handling a Koran with bare hands is torture, if you think putting woman's underwear on someone's head is torture, you are completely unable to process the meaning of words, the meaning of the simplest of words eludes you. You will not ready for the adult table, where adults discuss adult issues, like how to secure the country.
In the real world, the man who would humiliate a prisoner is obviously deserving of censure, and he will get it. But he isn't going to come through your window and cut your head from your body. It is never going to happen. There are real people who cut real heads from real bodies, and they do it for reasons that make no sense to anyone other than themselves. These men are your enemies, if you are capable of processing that concept.
The men, kids sometimes, men and women both, that we send to confront these monsters are not saints in any cartoonish or juvenile notion of the word. But they are noble and brave enough to put themselves in mortal danger on our behalf. The least we can do, what we owe them, is to stand behind them when the bullets and the accusations fly.
They have rules that they live by, and they will face the consequences when they step over the line. But they are at war with head-choppers who care nothing about rules of engagement. There will be no commission to investigate the men who slice our soldiers' heads from their bodies. There will only be other soldiers who will put themselves on the line to do what normal people fear to do, which is to close with the enemy and kill them.
Very well said.
good post. I am mixed between angry & heartbroken over this. Both. I am sure GWB cried --both sad & angry tears - last night when he got the briefing. Want to stay & read/etc but must leave for appt.