Saturday, May 09, 2009 We have a lot of people taking sides and defending viewpoints that convolute the overall reach of the arguments. First is the issue of war and prisoners. Second is the issue of war and total casualty. Third is the issue of war and civilian dead. Japan committed some of the most heinous war crimes and cruel acts to their prisoners. However, when it came to civilian deaths and overall deaths in numbers; it was Russia and Germany who won this title. Japan is blamed for some of the most ill treatment of prisoners and it is well documented of this.
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In so far as liberals and this communist and terrorist group we are dealing with; they argue against the dropping of the atomic bomb. They also argue how humane the communist are by frequently using labor camps to rehabilitate their dissidents instead of killing them or torturing them. Thus, oppression is widespread and the liberals, left wing, and communists are eager to imprison people but feel humane and civilized because it is only oppression. Keep in mind the overall deaths and civilian deaths at the hands of these people. Also keep in mind how many wars they started and how many people died after they started those wars. So the left wing may claim to be humane and how they only use oppression and torture; but the truth is the overall impact and the totality of the problem.
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If we were to let the left wing gain power of every country in this world, by the time we liberated them again, the number of casualties would be astronomical. They may claim to be humane but almost every war in this century has been started by the left wing and radicals. Once those wars begin, there are cruel acts and killing on both sides. To say no war crimes and no inhumane treatment goes unnoticed during warfare is not reality, there are always acts of cruelty on and off the battlefield. However, this argument is very simply put on who starts the wars and how many casualties we can blame them for. To say it is merely oppression, which we hear day in and day out by our kidnappers is a complete and total lie.
The communist and the left wing are constantly using the Japanese and the Germans as scapegoat to suggest the communists are humane or treat their prisoners well. The Gulag was a frequent and regular way to break people psychologically. To suggest random and frequent imprisonment is going to be needed for our future or to argue for communism; is to say the Bush Administration would speak out against this. It is not oppression, it is total invasion. It is an act of war and that war has massive casualty anyway you look at it. This spy group and this terror group we ran into are trying to present a half sided story and one which paints communists as oppressors and not barbarians. That is a total lie. Oppression starts wars and revolts and there is so much killing in war, the cruelty does not compare to water boarding or torture. However, we view a few cases with sensationalism and shock while we use it to speak for the overall condition.
In order to torture someone, they must first surrender. This is some agreement that they will be taken alive. Once an enemy combatant surrenders, then the laws of war, the Geneva Convention and even human rights kick in. Until an enemy surrenders, these laws do not apply to them. Civilians are not enemy combatants and do not wage war. Some are considered irregular or recruited in the cause; thus they forfeit the civilian ranks. Civilians do not surrender during war; they are not supposed to engage in it. However, there is another set of laws and guidelines for them to muster. There are human beings who are so cruel, so mean, and so dangerous that capturing them alive is suicide. Also the crimes they are charged with are so heinous an order of "dead or alive" dignifies the hunt.
War is something you want to avoid and to suggest that mere oppression or denying the rights of others by a left wing and communist government is a peaceful act; that does not accept any responsibility for the capture and apprehending parts where warfare and acts of war may be needed. However, if a larger conflict and a full scale war erupts or slides a society into mass chaos; then the fault of those who never took any precautions or warnings must be equally damning as the people who commit a single act of cruelty and a single casualty. Would we risk mass casualty and war over one civilian being tortured or would we inflict one act of cruelty so that war can be avoided?
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