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Friday, February 01, 2008

A Modest Proposal

What to do about ‘illegal combatants’ or....

...can’t we just cut off their heads with a dull knife, video-tape the operations, show them on YouTube.....and have DONE with it?

I’m in an discussion with some people over on Roger L. Simon’s blog. Here’s the the link.

As with many such discussions, the original topic has been set on the back-burner while someone wants to exorcise some particular, personal demon(s). In this instance, something to do with the concepts of ‘torture’ and, for lack of a better term, ‘illegal combatants’.

Sooner or later, Roger is going to close that thread. Therefore, I’ve decided to open this one in order to futher examine this idea of how people running around killing other people without uniforms or distinguishing insignia should be ‘treated’ vis-a-vis the Geneva Conventions and, as preached in the US Army, Law of Land Warfare.

Read the text in the link to Roger’s web-site and provide your comments on what we should do with these people. It’ll probably be an issue in the forthcoming general election.....

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