Zach LarkinsSCANDAL?
I'm a bit confused. Our government is under pressure from the opposition parties for having our forces in Afghanistan turn captured detainees over to Afghan officials for imprisonment. They claim the detainees are being tortured and abused and that Canada should be monitoring the situation more closely. Human rights activists are up in arms about this, holding Canadians to a standard they are not applying to the Afghans. The Liberals, who signed us up to go there in the first place as a peacemaking force, are now trying their best to have our forces return to a peacekeeping role.
I don't know if the detainees are being tortured or not. I don't really care. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of our business. I would be upset if some country came here and told us we were treating our prisoners in an unfair way. If you commit a crime anywhere in the world and get sent back here, you become our responsibility and we will treat you the way we see fit. If you happen to be in our country and capture a criminal, you turn him over to us, not apply your own law to that person. Heaven knows the number of people we behead would skyrocket. The detainees are, for the most part, Afghans and should be subject to the laws of that country.
Why in the world are the Liberals more concerned with the treatment of those people than they are about the safety and welfare of our own troops? Are the human rights activists actually admitting that third world countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran or Iraq are not as civilized as we are because of the way they may treat their prisoners? It wasn't too long ago that they were all shouting we had no right to be there in the first place and trying to bring them out of their 7th century thinking was a futile exercise. But now, suddenly, we have to treat the prisoners in a humane, 21st century way. Help me out here. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy of this line of thinking?
And just for the fun of it, what do the cut and runners think will happen if, as they want us to do, we abandon Afghanistan at this point? Or if the Americans left Iraq tomorrow? I'm sure in their little minds they would think everything is just hunky-dory and the non-existent Islamic terrorists would all sit down, have a good laugh about the whole thing and start handing out some of the soft sentences our left wing nuts are so fond of.
Yeah, right. There is no scandal to be had here. Plenty of political posturing though.
I don't know if the detainees are being tortured or not. I don't really care. As far as I'm concerned, it's none of our business. I would be upset if some country came here and told us we were treating our prisoners in an unfair way. If you commit a crime anywhere in the world and get sent back here, you become our responsibility and we will treat you the way we see fit. If you happen to be in our country and capture a criminal, you turn him over to us, not apply your own law to that person. Heaven knows the number of people we behead would skyrocket. The detainees are, for the most part, Afghans and should be subject to the laws of that country.
Why in the world are the Liberals more concerned with the treatment of those people than they are about the safety and welfare of our own troops? Are the human rights activists actually admitting that third world countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran or Iraq are not as civilized as we are because of the way they may treat their prisoners? It wasn't too long ago that they were all shouting we had no right to be there in the first place and trying to bring them out of their 7th century thinking was a futile exercise. But now, suddenly, we have to treat the prisoners in a humane, 21st century way. Help me out here. Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy of this line of thinking?
And just for the fun of it, what do the cut and runners think will happen if, as they want us to do, we abandon Afghanistan at this point? Or if the Americans left Iraq tomorrow? I'm sure in their little minds they would think everything is just hunky-dory and the non-existent Islamic terrorists would all sit down, have a good laugh about the whole thing and start handing out some of the soft sentences our left wing nuts are so fond of.
Yeah, right. There is no scandal to be had here. Plenty of political posturing though.
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