Ab Fab, Wesley
Oops!...I did it again
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"All aboard"
--Oops, I did It Again, Britney Spears
Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right
--Three Birds, Bob Marley
________
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
"All aboard"
--Oops, I did It Again, Britney Spears
Don't worry about a thing,
'Cause every little thing gonna be all right
--Three Birds, Bob Marley
________
A double-header. Twice in one week--from the right and the left--Ranger has been vindicated.
First it was Newt hopping on board with the PWOT © [Phony War on Terror], and today it is Wesley Clark defining a terrorist as a criminal and not a combatant ("Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers.") As we say in the South, we're in hog heaven.
Ranger has been saying this for years, but thanks to Wesley's explanatory editorial in the New York Times (he has the name cachet), more folks will now understand this, too. Perhaps, they will even become angry that this administration has constructed an illegal shadow category a la Stalin, in which to place people who are really criminals or fighters.
The insanity of this particular aspect of the Iraq Circus -- the nomenclature problem -- should be ended. Those in power will have one less tool with which to whip Americans into a frenzy of confusion. Adversaries will be seen for what they are, and praise be to Jefferson and Hamilton, and every other thinking legislator who followed, we have a Constitution and laws to deal with criminals and POWs.
Ranger is considering the coalition which might be formed from among this current triumvirate.
Hmmm. . .we could call on Ross Perot for some pointers. . .
--Lisa
First it was Newt hopping on board with the PWOT © [Phony War on Terror], and today it is Wesley Clark defining a terrorist as a criminal and not a combatant ("Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers.") As we say in the South, we're in hog heaven.
Ranger has been saying this for years, but thanks to Wesley's explanatory editorial in the New York Times (he has the name cachet), more folks will now understand this, too. Perhaps, they will even become angry that this administration has constructed an illegal shadow category a la Stalin, in which to place people who are really criminals or fighters.
The insanity of this particular aspect of the Iraq Circus -- the nomenclature problem -- should be ended. Those in power will have one less tool with which to whip Americans into a frenzy of confusion. Adversaries will be seen for what they are, and praise be to Jefferson and Hamilton, and every other thinking legislator who followed, we have a Constitution and laws to deal with criminals and POWs.
Ranger is considering the coalition which might be formed from among this current triumvirate.
Hmmm. . .we could call on Ross Perot for some pointers. . .
--Lisa
Labels: PWOT, Ranger Newt and Wesley, ross perot, terrorists are criminals, terrorists are not fighters, wesley clark
posted by Lisa at 5:40 PM
2 Comments:
yes, indeed. i have watched with amazement at the way terror cells and the terrorists themselves have been disrupted by good honest police work. in the looming tower it is chronicled over and over again, without comment, that the criminal investigators of the FBI came far closer to the perpetrators of the USS Cole bombing than the "counterterrorism" guys or the black ops spooks. by responding to murder with the military they instantly give political credence and status to those same criminals. murderers should be hunted, tried and punished as murderers, not soldiers in a cause of any note.
it's nice to see others agree with something that has been so obvious for so long.
m.b.,
Yes, to launch a military attack is to give credence to the terrorist-criminal, and to bypass our Constitution and body of national and international laws.
This entire fiasco could have been forestalled, and the perpetrators behind the attacks dealt with in a civilized, legal manner.
We would have been much the safer for it, and would not have bankrupted our country in the process--either economically or morally.
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