What's With McCain?
Some of our lawmakers have their wigs in a twist about article 3 of the Geneva Convention, as it applies to how the US should treat prisoners held at Gitmo and elsewhere. But Senator John McCain's argument is a strawman: he claims that if our soldiers are ever captured by Islamofacists - who are not a signatory to, or an adherent of, the Geneva Convention anyway - they could be tried in secret without habeous corpus. Where's he been? Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas have yet to be returned; Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were forced at gunpoint to "convert" on video, and Daniel Pearl was beheaded on video. One wonders how the Geneva Convention factored into these instances.
McCain, of all people, should know the realities of capture, which is that our enemies don't comply with the niceties of the Geneva Convention. The North Vietnamese didn't, and Al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Taliban and other jihadist Islamofacists don't either. Yet he's joined forces with Colin Powell, himself no friend of the Bush administration, and a gaggle of RINO senators (Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine) to hamstring our nation's information gathering techniques. We're not talking about torture here - although the MSM throws that word about indiscriminately. Coercion, humiliation and intimidation are proven effective interrogation methods, and the US should not arbitrarily abandon these techniques for the sake of some misplaced notion of a higher moral ground. If information gathered from those methods saves American lives, where's the complaint? How many thousands of Brits, Americans and others are alive and with their families today because the British foiled a horrendous coordinated transatlantic airliner attack? Good intel equals good results.
McCain, of all people, should know the realities of capture, which is that our enemies don't comply with the niceties of the Geneva Convention. The North Vietnamese didn't, and Al-Qaeda, Hamas, the Taliban and other jihadist Islamofacists don't either. Yet he's joined forces with Colin Powell, himself no friend of the Bush administration, and a gaggle of RINO senators (Senator John W. Warner of Virginia, Senators John McCain of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Susan Collins of Maine) to hamstring our nation's information gathering techniques. We're not talking about torture here - although the MSM throws that word about indiscriminately. Coercion, humiliation and intimidation are proven effective interrogation methods, and the US should not arbitrarily abandon these techniques for the sake of some misplaced notion of a higher moral ground. If information gathered from those methods saves American lives, where's the complaint? How many thousands of Brits, Americans and others are alive and with their families today because the British foiled a horrendous coordinated transatlantic airliner attack? Good intel equals good results.
Senator McCain, whose side are you on, anyway?
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