PrintSeptember 20, 2006
Applying the Geneva Convention Will Destroy It
Amidst the cascade of caterwauling over the 'plight' of the Islamist monsters being detained at Guantanamo, the potential for an adverse effect on the Geneva Conventions' protections for our captured soldiers has been touted as a self—interested reason to apply severe restraints on the questioning of terror suspects.
The actual result promises to be incalculable damage to the significance of that set of treaties. In truth the left is no more concerned with the fate of the terrorists or the treaty than it is with the entirely predictable fallout that will negatively impact American servicemen in present and future conflicts.
What must first be understood is the manner in which the First Geneva Convention was constructed and ratified, and what mechanisms must be in place in order for it to be upheld. In the wake of atrocities against military prisoners taken captive during the First World War, nations that held a concern for their own soldiers, when captured, agreed to set...(Read Full Article)
