Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Haq Attaq
Court TV (or Tru TV, or whatvr thy'r calld now) has been running the Haq trial for a couple of weeks now. This is an excellent example of why we're losing this war, and why we will continue to lose. We are STILL treating enemy soldiers as conventional criminals, subject to all the "rights" of Due Process. Most of this trial is devoted to the question of Haq's "sanity" in legal terms, because there's no doubt that he did the shooting.
One of the shrinks was saying that Haq believed himself to be an enemy soldier on a mission, which (according to the defense) was a sign of insanity.
All right, let's look at the facts.
What we have here is an enemy soldier on a mission.
His mission is to kill Jews.
And the enemy soldier believes he is on a mission. This is not surprising, because he is on a mission. Why shouldn't he believe it?
This is what you'd expect from a competent soldier. He knows which side he's on, and he's proud to fight for his side.
The problem is that we don't know which side we're on. Instead of killing the enemy soldier on the spot, as soldiers have always done, we put him through the process intended for ordinary lawbreakers, and we spend weeks ASKING WHETHER HIS ENEMY STATUS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS MITIGATION OF HIS PUNISHMENT.
We are utterly, totally, incurably insane.
We have already lost this war. ¶ 11:28 AM
One of the shrinks was saying that Haq believed himself to be an enemy soldier on a mission, which (according to the defense) was a sign of insanity.
All right, let's look at the facts.
What we have here is an enemy soldier on a mission.
His mission is to kill Jews.
And the enemy soldier believes he is on a mission. This is not surprising, because he is on a mission. Why shouldn't he believe it?
This is what you'd expect from a competent soldier. He knows which side he's on, and he's proud to fight for his side.
The problem is that we don't know which side we're on. Instead of killing the enemy soldier on the spot, as soldiers have always done, we put him through the process intended for ordinary lawbreakers, and we spend weeks ASKING WHETHER HIS ENEMY STATUS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS MITIGATION OF HIS PUNISHMENT.
We are utterly, totally, incurably insane.
We have already lost this war. ¶ 11:28 AM
