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Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Congressional Republicans: Stand firm on detainee treatment The original conflict came to a head when Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham stuck together and defied Bush on passing a bill covering interrogation techniques at CIA prisons. McCain, a POW during the Vietnam War and long respected as a politician, leads the trio in blocking wording that changes the interpretation of Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. Article 3 governs treatment of detainees, and President Bush’s proposal reinterprets that convention in a way that allows greater use of practices that have typically been considered torture. Sen. Graham summed up their reluctance in the following statement: ``If it's seen that our country is trying to redefine the Geneva Convention to meet the needs of the CIA, why can't every other country redefine the Geneva Convention to meet the needs of their secret police?'' Mr Graham asked. It is time for the US to return to the moral high ground in the War on Terror, both to regain the respect of our allies and enemies, but also to protect our own troops from retaliation. The point of the Geneva Convention was to create a “do upon others” basis of treatment, and we certainly do not want to have our soldiers treated in the way that we have treated detainees – the oft-mentioned water-boarding, secret prisons without disclosure, etc. The challenge lies in the enemy – terrorists do not ally to one sovereign nation, and therefore are not held to the rules of the Geneva Convention. This is where we have to look within ourselves and ask if we as a nation are willing to drop our morals and stoop to the levels of the enemy, or stand firm in leading the world in human rights as we used to. If we do not, we will look back on these times with the shame afforded to us when revisiting the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The actions of McCain, Warner and Graham should be applauded, and they should be encouraged to stand firm. Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Bill Dock at 11:08 AM |
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1 Comments:
And what of the internment of German Americans and Italian Americans. Do not these victims of internment of World War II deserve honorable mention?
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