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April 01, 2009
Guantanamo Madness: The Left's Perspective Problem
Why does the left side of the aisle want to politicize our security? Why do they want to give aid and comfort to the enemy? Why don't they bother to inform themselves about the nature of jihad, which is the very real threat we're facing? These are the questions I ask myself when I learn of someone like Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois launching into an unhinged, through-the-looking-glass, pro-mujahideen diatribe on the Senate floor. (salute to The American Thinker)
On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. . . . On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor.
If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime—Pol Pot or others—that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.
He then goes on to appeal to the Bush administration to confer Geneva conventions rights upon the stateless holy warriors who live solely to kill infidels, whether we are in a military uniform or not.
We are like the Nazis. We operate detention facilities that are analogous to Soviet gulags. We are comparable to the Khmer Rouge. ...
It's this sort of absurd, pernicious, and grossly disproportionate anti-America leftist rhetoric (under a thin veneer of earnest patriotism for the nonexistent American dystopia of their febrile dreams) that emboldens our enemies, puts our lives and the lives of our soldiers in danger, and alienates the left further from the mainstream. It's this type of insensate, over-the-rainbow disregard for the reality that America is now faced with—a reality that we did not ask for—that made a lot of people like myself vote Republican for the first time ever this past November.
originally posted at Clarity & Resolve
Posted by Patrick at April 1, 2009 12:00 AM
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Sorry, but i think its a sad day when we, as a country, need to sit and discuss what exactly torture is and isn't - because we might cross the line. Certainly, if these things were being done to American troops we would consider it barbaric.
Apparently America isn't sure what humane treatment is anymore.
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