Ditto
. The current administration in the US has used the events of 9/11 to rob people of thier rights and give the executive branch unprecedented power. Bush truly believes that he can pick and choose laws to obey and that the Constitution is just an old scrap of paper. I don't know what the hell is end goal is, but it sure doesn't seem like maintaining a true, free democracy (if we had one in the first place
).
I agree. As for the constitution, I think
JibJab got it right. "And then I'll ammend the contitushonn".
But I think Bush loves Churchill, if I am not mistaken, it was he that said "I will not let a piece of paper stop this", or something in that fashion.
Well said. Just because chicken-shit terrorists don't obey the Geneva convention doesn't mean we shouldn't. Have we ever actually fought someone who obeyed it? There are days when I look at the paper and think that Iraq should be turned into an irradiated glass parking lot. Then I remember that if we ran around completely annihilating stuff at random we'd be no better than the fundamentalist tyranny we're trying to combat.
Well, no country follows the geneva convention fully in war. The US surely did not during WW2, not even on the political level. There was strong agreement in the allied governments, all of them, that bombing civilians was 'ok'. In a strategic perspective, they were right, it did affect the war effort of Germany, even if Germany couldn't put fighters in the air, not because of a lack of fighters, but because of a lack of pilots. The reason why Churchill didn't face trial, is that the allied won. Not that I am comparing Churchill to Hitler.
Remember when the planes hit WTC? Remember 9/11? CNN sent pictures from the Gaza strip, of Palestinians celebrated. It was horrible to see. And it was condemned by many people as inhumane.
But let me just add, that in 1945, the allies bombed Dresden, destroying it TOTALLY. People cheared in London.
Does this mean that the British were monsters? Inhumane barbars? No. Britain was in war with Germany, Germany was the enemy. Germany had bombed England. For the love of God, Germany occupied half of Europe.
Same goes for the Palestinians. Israel has for the last 60 years, with more or less solid support from the US, occupied Palestine, they have bombed the occupied ereas several times over the years, and to them, Israel, and their strong ally America, would been seen as an enemy, however correct that perseption would be.
It's all psychology.
But the big issue IS that you just can't ignore human rights and the likes.