Biden.

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Now Senator Biden is speaking to Attorney General Ashcroft in the Senate at hearings into the purported decision to use "hostile" methods of interrogation against supposed captured terrorists and those in the now infamous Abu Ghraib prison incidents made so public to the whole world by the series of photos recently released.

The Senator, probably one of the top men in the Senate, and at one time candidate for the Presidency, is talking about the treaty the U.S. has signed on torture and the Geneva Convention.

Biden says something that really amazes me.

Makes me wonder if he really has a correct perception of the enemy we fight in this current anti-terrorist war. Biden says, "we signed these treaties and are to abide by them as we want our people to be treated well if they are captured by the enemy". This of course is the belief that if we treat captured enemy soldiers well, the enemy will see this and reciprocate by treating our soldiers that are captured well. Sort of a Golden Rule idea. Do unto others. Well, you get it!

Anyhow, how does this idea stand up under examination?

Not well.

It must be understood that in the mind of the jihadi, we in the west, and the soldiers of the U.S. especially, are KAFFIR. Unbelievers. Persons who exist on a lower level of existence than the jihadi. We are not human beings on the same plane of humanity as is the jihadi and his fellow believers.

Snuffing out the life of the kaffir is no greater a difficulty for the jihadi than squashing a bug on the floor with your heel. NO MATTER HOW WELL, THE JIHADI PRISONER IS TREATED, IT MEANS NOTHING TO HIM WITH REGARD TO TREATING A U.S. PRISONER.

You are an insignificant evil worm to be erased from the planet anyhow. So why treat you with humanity and dignity and fairness? To even suggest to the jihadi that the Ameriki prisoner should be treated fairly because jihadi prisoners are treated fairly by the Amriki would be one big joke to the jihadi. Such a concept would be preposterous to even suggest!

Indeed, this pattern of treating captured enemy prisoners in previous wars well did not seem to help in the fair treatment of our own prisoners held by the enemy.

NOT in Korea,

NOT in Vietnam.

NOT in the Pacific theatre during WW2 [there were about 1000 Japanese prisoners being held by Allied forces in the Pacific prior to the time of Okinawa. Being held and treated fairly and humanely.

This did not help the many hundreds of thousands Allied internees being held by the Japs. They were uniformly treated to brutal and inhumane treatment throughout the war].

In all those wars, even though the U.S. did not subscribe at the time to the Geneva Conventions, the enemy prisoner was subjected to a regimen of fair treatment even better than what they had received from their OWN governments. All this good treatment of captured enemy did not benefit our own prisoners one bit!! American prisoners of the enemy in these wars were subjected to the most brutal treatment imaginable, and this treatment done as part of the hostile forces policy.

Even before the release of the photos of the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and even WAY BEFORE the current war in Iraq, the jihadis throughout the world had a bad habit of severely mistreating captured Amriki and others.

The beheadings of Daniel Pearl and the man in the Philippines are just examples of what awaits captured Americans. That man in the Philippines was executed just to show that the terrorists meant business and they were quite capable of doing as they threatened.

In the ten year war in Lebanon, mentioned in a previous post, jihadis used to kidnap westerners, and hold then for literally years at a time.

Most of the time, how were these westerners kept? Chained to walls for YEARS on end and fed by having rice and maggoty beans shoveled on the floor in front of them.

One U.S. Marine was hung as revenge, his body put on display.

And a CIA case officer was slowly tortured to death, his torture being taped and sent to the CIA as a warning. This being done with RELISH by the jihadis. This word relish I have used in posts before with regard to the jihadi. And they do relish doing what they are doing. They are not ashamed of the killing of non-combatants or torturing captured "enemies" They love it. They have depraved mentalities.

Please don't ever think that we MUST treat them well as prisoners so that our own prisoners at the hands of the jihadis will be treated well. One means of defeating our enemies is to first understand what type of enemy we are fighting. Not realizing the true nature of the enemy is now and will be a serious handicap.

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