Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 10:05:20 AM
A
characteristically astute article from Dr. Sowell. Here is a great excerpt:
"Those who are pushing for legal action against CIA agents may talk
about 'upholding the law' but they are doing no such thing. Neither the
Constitution of the United States nor the Geneva Convention gives
rights to terrorists who operate outside the law.
There was a time when everybody understood this. German
soldiers who put on American military uniforms, in order to infiltrate
American lines during the Battle of the Bulge were simply lined up
against a wall and shot-- and nobody wrung their hands over it. Nor did
the U.S. Army try to conceal what they had done. The executions were
filmed and the film has been shown on the History Channel.
So many 'rights' have been conjured up out of thin air that
many people seem unaware that rights and obligations derive from
explicit laws, not from politically correct pieties. If you don't meet
the terms of the Geneva Convention, then the Geneva Convention doesn't
protect you. If you are not an American citizen, then the rights
guaranteed to American citizens do not apply to you.
That should be especially obvious if you are part of an
international network bent on killing Americans. But bending over
backward to be nice to our enemies is one of the many self-indulgences
of those who engage in moral preening.
But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up
about yourself is profoundly immoral. So is betraying the country you
took an oath to protect"
So here's a question: if you deliberately betray the country you took an oath to protect, it is treason, is it not? What do we call it when it is done out of abject stupidity?
"Diplomacy"?