Sunday, March 23, 2003
Rules For Gentlemen Trying To Kill Each Other
How can we believe other nations will follow the Geneva Convention when we have ignored those same rules ourselves.
The prisoners in Guantanimo Bay have not been treated according to that same international law. Now, Iraq has some of our soldiers. General Colin Powell was very worried about this very exact situation when the Afganistan prisoners were not been held as POW's and they were not being treated according to the Geneva convention. He stated that it may become a precedent for treatment of our soldiers, should they be caught behind enemy lines. Powell was right. Whatever saying you choose works here. "What goes around comes around" or "don't piss in the well because you may have to drink from it someday". We have put our soldiers in an extremely deadly situation if they are caught.
Bush however, wants every one in the world else except him, to play by the rules. How hypocritical is that. Unfortunately, our troops are going to pay the price for his arrogance.
Now, lets take the other view. If the US would have gone into the war with UN blessing, would the Iraqui army follow the Geneva convention? I doubt it, but we will never know. One thing I do know for sure, Bush's complete inability to deal with other nations, put our soldiers there to begin with.
The prisoners in Guantanimo Bay have not been treated according to that same international law. Now, Iraq has some of our soldiers. General Colin Powell was very worried about this very exact situation when the Afganistan prisoners were not been held as POW's and they were not being treated according to the Geneva convention. He stated that it may become a precedent for treatment of our soldiers, should they be caught behind enemy lines. Powell was right. Whatever saying you choose works here. "What goes around comes around" or "don't piss in the well because you may have to drink from it someday". We have put our soldiers in an extremely deadly situation if they are caught.
Bush however, wants every one in the world else except him, to play by the rules. How hypocritical is that. Unfortunately, our troops are going to pay the price for his arrogance.
Now, lets take the other view. If the US would have gone into the war with UN blessing, would the Iraqui army follow the Geneva convention? I doubt it, but we will never know. One thing I do know for sure, Bush's complete inability to deal with other nations, put our soldiers there to begin with.
# posted by Thomas @ 7:22 PM 
