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Wrong Debate
By oceanguy | November 14, 2009
All the news coverage I am reading and watching is focused on the upcoming trial for KSM and the other enemy combatants being held in Guantanamo. It’s the wrong debate.
It’s silly to debate whether or not they will get a fair trial and, though true, it is just as silly to speak of the circus show the trial has the potential to become. Neither side is addressing the real issue which SHOULD be at the heart of the matter.
The question is… or rather should be… are these terrorists criminals or are they enemy combatants? By arguing the effects of a trial and granting them all the rights of citizens, we are conceding the real debate to the President who obviously cannot see them as enemies.
TURN the Debate. Don’t ask whether or not we have a great system of justice, don’t whine about giving KSM a public platform for dissing America. Instead debate the hard issue…
Are KSM and the others enemy combatants or are they criminals? If we agree with KSM, who sees himself as an enemy combatant, then we have a different problem… How do we deal with enemies who are not acting as part of a recognized sovereign State?
Of course Obama will avoid that debate at all costs because if he is honest with himself and his intellectual integrity, he will be led down the same path that George Bush was. Trying to cope with a new enemy in a new situation… new in the laws of war… led the Bush Administration to hold the prisoners at Guantanamo… and led them to conclude, that as non-state actors, they did not deserve the protection of the Geneva Conventions, let alone the protection of the Constitution. It is important to continue that debate… Instead we are agreeing with Obama and the left that All of Bush’s decisions were All Wrong.
The left is winning the argument by redefining the issue and conservatives are falling for the ruse.
Get the issue back on track… are the terrorists enemy combatants or are they criminals?
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November 14th, 2009 at 10:56 am
You know, it occurs to me that many *caveat* thinking */caveat* Conservatives actually don’t fall for the ruse. And most others wouldn’t either except for the so-called Conservative commentators on the television networks.
In looking for leadership and the chance to feel good about one’s opinions, many still rely on the approval or opprobrium of the MSM. It’s certain that the closed loop of the Beltway and NYC have insulated–if not outright cultivated– a bunch of self-serving chatterers that go along with the meme. I’m sure it gratifies Soros and Sulzbacher to no end.
True Conservatiives have got to get over the whole “wanting to be liked by the Media” madness of McCain’s ilk.