It also bans the execution of POWs (as if that needed to be encoded anywhere).
Askel said that the United States shouldn't expect to be covered by the Geneva Convention when it went against the major signatories of that convention (that's the UN) in going ahead with this war.
That's reprehensible, IMO. The UN exhibited cowardice, and will be embarrassed after this war ends.
Askel also said, during our incursion into Afghanistan, that the Taliban were unfairly demonized; they were, after all, against abortion, drugs, and pornography.
Askel's a very angry young woman, and she's taking it out on the country.
Not only reprehensible, but wrong. The laws of war apply to all armed conflicts--whether they are blessed by the ignoble, feckless UN and its cheese-eating surrender monkeys or not.
Askel5's brain is free-wheeling in empty space. LP is a good place for her.
If that is indeed what she said then I would disagree with that statement.
Askel also said, during our incursion into Afghanistan, that the Taliban were unfairly demonized; they were, after all, against abortion, drugs, and pornography.
This is, in a nutchell, her baby. Nothing is more evil to her than the current culture. The taliban are evil SOBs, no doubt about it. Her point was, though, that they haven't they killed 45 million of their own in the womb, or harvested out untold amounts of humans like crops of corn for they cells. Which is the greater evil? What they did to their women or what we do to ours? We are a peaceful people, never harming our neighbors. We only harm our own. Her argument has merit on that level.
But why banning? Why not just knock her down in the arena of ideas if her ideas are so wrong. I always considered her a great contributor to our catholic caucus and will miss her and will pray for her.
Anyway, thanks for the explanation sink. I'm getting offline and going on a walk. Probably won't be back until Eastertime. Have a fruitful lent.
The last time my wife and I spent a social evening with her she was as pleasant and charming as always. She actually is most charitable and, I might mention, spoke of you as someone who, though she differed with you quite frequently, she appreciated, respected and thought of with great regard.
Likewise, I also felt differently than Askel on some topics, and wouldn't have found it difficult to quote chapter and verse from the actual Geneva Convention text just as I did at the time of the Al Qaeda captures, but alas, such effort is wasted now, its so much easier to cast them aside and pretend they are just the sum of a few comments rather than a valid compatriot.