I'll kick in $50 right now
can we send Hillary to Gitmo—just to see?
General Washington announced a decision unique in human history, sending the following order for handling prisoners: Treat them with humanity, and Let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British army in their Treatment of our unfortunate brethren.
Therefore, George Washington, our commander-in-chief before he was our President, laid down the indelible marker of our nation’s values even as we were struggling as a nation – and his courageous act reminds us that America was born out of faith in certain basic principles. In fact, it is these principles that made and still make our country exceptional and allow us to serve as an example. We are not bound together as a nation by bloodlines. We are not bound by ancient history; our nation is a new nation. Above all, we are bound by our values.
Now these values – George Washington’s values, the values of our founding – are at stake.
No kiddin’ Hillary, Meat Puppet of Soros?
With humanity - certainly. Even at home, the ax-murderer is led away quietly (if possible) to a comfortable but not overly large room for a long contemplative vacation.
But we are overdoing it. The prisoners at Guantanamo have a more comfortable life than the guards - and certainly better than most big-city homeless. If we can’t do more than mollycoddle those prisoners, I have to wonder if we have the stomach - or the heart - to continue as a great nation. Britain fell from being Great Britain not too long ago, for many of the same reasons (dhimmitude, deference to the Other). We’re not too far behind. It’s probably not too late to turn things around, but we are running out of time.
Posted by ZZMike on 10/02/06 at 12:04 PMI know, Mike. ...and it’s startin’ ta get to me.
TW: light
[hoping it’s not affixed to the front of an oncoming train...]Posted by Claire on 10/03/06 at 12:25 AM
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