EFFin’ Unsound

post by Carl

Thurston Pundits says fuck the rule of law.

Thanks Brian Baird and Adam Smith for your great representation of districts full of military families.

The rest of the post doesn’t mention Baird or Smith. Divining, I’d say they are awful because they are Democrats so no need to go beyond that.

I liked it better when the rest of the world thought we were assholes. This desire to be “liked” at the cost of safety and prosperity is truly a sign of mental illness.

Unnecessary war is totally necessary for prosperity and safety. Also, they didn’t think we were assholes, we just were assholes. We did asshole things like invade another country without cause, because the President was an asshole. We decided to call French Fries Freedom Fries because enough members of Congress were assholes. We detained people indefinitely without trial because we were assholes. The country went after the Dixie Chicks because many of us (say it with me) were assholes. We discarded the rule of law and common sense because we put assholes in charge. Thankfully, we’re moving in the right direction, but there are still too many asshole policies in place.

Note to our feel good government: Lots of people in foreign countries like a two dollar whore, but nobody respects one.

Investigations of our own people who may have done something wrong = prostitution. This is a strange metaphor. Maybe if we put it into SAT style analogies, it would help me figure out what he’s talking about:

Obama : Cheap Prostitute :: Bush : ______

(a) Asshole
(b) Expensive Prostitute
(c) Somehow a Combination of Reagan and Churchill
(d) This is seriously fucked up, and maybe we should consider ditching the whole thing.

From Fox:

So you know it’s accurate.

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

So is it Adam Smith’s fault if (and it’s still if at this point) they beat up someone who they had already captured? That we found out about it? That they thought it was OK?

The larger point of course is that we have laws. Members of the military, representing the United States, have to behave within our rules and norms. That doesn’t include beating up someone we capture once they are in captivity, no matter how awful a thing they may have done.

It’s a safer time than ever to be a terrorist hell bent on killing Americans and members of our military. In fact, it’s safer now to be a terrorist than a member of the military tasked with eliminating terrorists.

We have rules. That’s a good thing. If we’re going to have an imperial policy in the Middle East that says we’re keeping the arbitrary boundaries drawn up mostly by France and Great Britain after the first World War, maybe it’s not terrible to demonstrate that there is a value in the rule of law. The rule of law is a stronger basis for nations than raw military power.

Still the point is fuck Brian Baird for some reason.

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