How Many Are Many?
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How many days do you go to work in order to make enough to retire? Many years worth of days. Put that in minutes and it works out to giga-gazzillions of minutes... and how about all those seconds? What is taking you so long?
How many bullets, bombs, prisoners must be handled? How much money, time, dead and wounded will it take to win the war Against Terrorism? How many military men and women must sacrifice, die and be maimed to keep the US homeland safe? How many US military men and women must sacrifice, die and be maimed to keep France, Canada, and the civilized world safe? How many US military men and women must sacrifice, die and be maimed to allow tens-of-millions of Canadians, Europeans, Asians, middle-easterners, and others to relax, pay little or no expense, and whine about how nasty the US is treating those sweet terrorist prisoners?
Has any Canadian, Frenchman, or other safely ensconced weenies contemplated or paused to consider how he might obtain knowledge of future attacks from his enemy? Might it be wiser to simply detain enemy combatants and wait for their compatriots to spring the next attack?
The US-based group Human Rights Watch said in a report on rights conditions in 70 countries that abuses by the United States in its war against terrorism had damaged American credibility and had prompted other countries to use similar tactics.
Imagine a world wherein every nation and individual followed the centuries-long human rights record of the United States. Were that the case, war would be played with more gentility than is ice hockey.
The US is waging the vast portion of the fight against terrorists. Therefore, US forces will logically encounter the vast majority of terrorists. Therefore, US forces will be the ones to interrogate most terrorists. Therefore, relative to other nations, US forces will interrogate the largest absolute number of terrorists. However, relative to the destruction and death the US is preventing, relatively few civil rights infractions are being committed against those terrorists who have sworn to destroy the US and all civilized people.
The US is waging the global War Against Terrorism in order to keep these Human Rights Watch report writers and others safe. It is only thanks to the US military that these report writers have sharp pencils, clean paper, safe desks, power to operate their computers, and time to write their 500-plus page reports attacking the US... and to also get paid for it.
If not for the US having waged the global War Against Terrorism passively over the last 35 years and actively since 9/11/2001, these non-contemplative report writers may have already been blown up by Taliban-like fanatics.
Reports such as the one Human Rights Watch published misconstrue data, misrepresent the proportional, and misstate the relatively few incidents. These reports provide invalid proof for the likes of Russia, China, North Korea, several African nations and middle-eastern regimes to continue their sadistic, despotic, murderous ways. Those cruel regimes point to false conclusions in reports like this as relative justification for their own methods.
They hold up the US as the gold standard of decency in war and in peace. Everyone should be so wise. Understanding history would help.
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