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June 12, 2007

From Real Torture By Our Enemies Comes Only Stone Silence From Media And Human Rights Groups

Topics: War on Terror

As Jeff Emanuel points out at American Spectator, violent, inhumane, and degrading treatment has been banned from the war on terror - only someone forgot to tell the terrorists.

So where have the "strangely silent human rights groups" and the mainstream media been "who seem to spend every day accusing the United States of phantom "torture," war crimes, and various human rights violations, while largely ignoring the real crimes carried out by our enemies"" ?

... the position that the United States commits any acts whatsoever which could be construed to remotely resemble real "torture" in any way whatsoever is one borne out of ignorance and willful refusal to face reality. The fact that the word "torture" itself has been dumbed down so much that it is being used day in and day out to describe acts by the U.S. which simply make those who would slaughter us slightly uncomfortable has, as Don Surber of the Belmont Club wrote recently, left us utterly impotent to describe the acts of al Qaeda and others, which until the word lost its meaning and power were known as torture themselves. Surber writes:

The problem with the word "torture" is that it has been so artfully corrupted by some commentators that we now find ourselves at a loss to describe the kinds of activities that the al-Qaeda interrogation manual graphically recommends. Now that the term "torture" has been put in one-to-one correspondence with such admittedly unpleasant activities as punching, sleep deprivation, a handkerchief pulled over one's face and loaded with water, searches by women upon sensitive Islamic men or the disrespectful handling of Korans -- what on earth do we call gouging people's eyes out?

We need to understand that it does not matter how much we change our ways of doing business, or how much the hands of our military and other terrorist-fighting organizations are tied in the name of not provoking our enemies further. Those we are fighting in the Global War on Terror are not cut from the same cloth as the militaries against whom we have done battle in the past. They follow no rules but their own, and, rather than being reciprocated, no good deed we perform -- and no concession we make -- will go unpunished.

The United States formally banned "torture" last year in the foolishly naive hope that doing so would cause our enemies to be less brutal when our own citizens were captured. If last year's case of Kristian Menchaca and Tom Tucker, and this year's case of Joe Anzack, Alex Jimenez, and Byron Fouty, do not cause us to open our eyes to the fallacy inherent in such belief, then we really are in such great denial about the enemy that we are facing in the global war on terror that we have little, if any, hope of prevailing.

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Posted by Richard at June 12, 2007 6:42 AM

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