The4thEstate wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:09 am
Yep. I have my own opinion on what to do with the 12,000 or so ISIS prisoners who are currently incarcerated in Syria.
And my plan wouldn't conform to the Geneva Convention. But then, ISIS doesn't conform to Geneva anyway, so why should we play by the rules?
We'd be doing the civilized world a favor.
brian ross wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:34 pm
In your opinion and in the opinion of bogan, perhaps.
However a race to the bottom invariably ends up with everybody in the gutter. All you've done is forfeit any claim to being morally superior to your enemy. Unless you actually demonstrate that you are morally superior, any such claim is fruitless.
So who's keeping score ... the U.N.? The International Court of Justice? As if either of them has any claim to moral superiority.
I'm more interested in preserving freedom in Western nations, which can't happen when people are afraid to get on airplanes, attend large public gatherings, etc. And that's exactly what we'll have more of if we turn loose thousands of savages whose greatest goal in life is to massacre men, woman and children who don't happen to share their religious views.
Heck, even one of those subhumans can cause plenty of needless death and destruction. It didn't take many to slaughter 3,000 people in the WTC.
So y'know, we put down rabid dogs for the good of society, and I can't see much difference here.
brian ross wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:34 pm
If you look at the last century, the reason why the Allies were able to claim they were morally superior to first the Central Powers and then later the Axis was because they could prove it. They didn't massacre prisoners willy-nilly. They didn't organise extermination camps. The Central Powers and the Axis did.
Nahhh ... of course the Allies didn't kill large numbers of civilians!
Every casualty in the bombing of Dresden, and Tokyo, and especially Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was an enemy soldier ... and every obliterated building was a military target. You heard it here first!
brian ross wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:34 pm
All I can say is that I am glad that you are not in charge of military strategy, 4E. You would get more of your own men killed than you would the enemy.
How so? The goal in any war is to kill people and break things. And the goal in any peace is to ensure that your own homeland isn't overrun by the enemies you supposedly vanquished.
Unlike you, I don't spend large quantities of my free time fretting over the treatment of soulless zealots who want to kill me, my family, my friends, my neighbors and my dog ... simply to serve their twisted version of a deity.
What exactly do you think 12,000 ISIS prisoners are going to do if they manage to get free -- go back to tending their goat herds?
And how many billions of your own nation's dollars do you want to spend keeping them incarcerated and full of hummus?
Not me. I'd show them all the mercy they showed their own prisoners. Hey, they're big on martyrdom, so how could it be anything but a win-win?