Thursday, January 22, 2009

Why are they even talking?

Here is why you don't try the "appeasement" route with terror organizations and countries that back terrorism.

Short version: "Closing Gitmo not enough, close ALL of your detainment facilities and pay us for our time"

umm...yeah....not so much

And why are Afgani and Pakistani "Human Rights" organizations and former terror suspects even allowed to weigh in on this? That is like asking a man on death row how the death penalty should be applied. Why don't we ask people from Mumbai, or survivors of the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks if all, some, or any of our detention facilities should be closed. Or try this question:

"Mr. or Ms. Fire/Police/EMS/New Yorker/American, if depriving a suspected terrorist of sleep for 2 days and not letting him read his Qu'ran for a week or so would have yielded information that may have prevented the attacks on the WTC, would you be in favor of this treatment?"

If the answer is in the negative, I would question whether or not the person being asked met the criteria implicit in the addressing of the question.

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