THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VIII, Issue # 180, September 21, 2006
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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LIBERALISM IS DESTROYING THE GENEVA CONVENTION
By Christopher G. Adamo
THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: THE TERROR WAR & AMERICA'S INTERNAL ENEMIES
-- THE ENDEAVOR OF LEFTWING LIBERALS TO RESTRICT & UNDERMINE THE ABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENRY & MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY THE
ISLAMISTS -- THE LIBERALS' SEDITIOUS COLLABORATION WITH AMERICA'S TERRORIST ENEMY
FULL STORY:
Pick your issue, from the environment to “sexual harassment” to the
treatment of captured terrorists, and the Liberal take on it is guaranteed
to be wrong on every front. First, the concerns expressed by the political Left are
invariably only a facade, intended to exploit the situation in an effort to
advance the cause of Liberalism. Secondly, and more significantly, Liberal
involvement will almost exclusively worsen the problem about which the Left
claims to be concerned.
On the topic of “sexual harassment,” the political Left incessantly lauded itself as a
champion of the plight of women at the hands of brutish men, until the
brutish “man” in question was Bill Clinton, titular leader of the Democratic Party
and the sniveling philandering Liberal Democratic President
whom Leftists believed to be their secular political messiah.
Suddenly, “sex” was no longer sex, and “sexual harassment,” even to the point of
criminal assault and intimidation, was no longer any grounds for indictment of the
perpetrator. In essence, Liberals were proving that these issues were of
concern to them only insofar as they could be used to bludgeon their
political opposition into compliance and retreat.
Otherwise, whether the issue is that of an innocent receptionist who is
affronted by the then governor of Arkansas exposing himself to her and
thereafter seeking to bully her into silence, or the genocide of hundreds of
thousands of helpless refugees in sub-Saharan Africa, Liberals are
absolutely indifferent to it. Yet, such indifference may be the far lesser of
two evils.
Consider all of their recent caterwauling over the “plight” of the Islamist
monsters being detained at Guantanamo, and how Liberal Democrats and socalled "moderate" (i.e., Liberal)
Republicans contend that the present controversy might ostensibly yield an
adverse effect on the Geneva Convention.
Just as with every other issue they embrace, the actual result promises to
be incalculable damage to the significance of that treaty. Yet, 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 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 standards of reasonable
treatment.
Yet, despite the juvenile beliefs of Liberal utopians, no beneficent and
all-powerful authority exists that could enforce such provisions. Neither
The Hague nor the United Nations qualifies. Experience has shown them to be
little more than miserable and pathetic caricatures of such.
Ultimately, the participating nations recognized that the only manner in
which the Geneva Convention could be upheld was to diligently grant such
protections to the prisoners from those nations who were themselves
signatories and therefore in agreement with the provisions of the
Convention. It is this promise of reciprocity, both positive and negative,
that undergirds the Geneva Convention.
During World War II, an American captive could expect superior treatment in
a German prisoner of war camp to that received by a Russian, owing in part
to the fact that, although both America and Germany signed the treaty, the
Soviet Union had not. Thus, in the wake of the war, the Soviets became
official signatories to the pact.
Recently, the United States Supreme Court bestowed upon al-Qa'ida terrorists
-- hardly an organized or accountable military entity -- the “rights” of
prisoners under the Geneva Convention. In doing so, the Supreme Court committed an
act of blatant and unconstitutional activism that makes a mockery of the
Convention, and, in a former era, would have resulted in the Supreme Court justices' impeachment and
removal from the bench.
Despite the fact that the terrorist-prisoners were already being treated
with a level of civility vastly exceeding anything Americans might ever
expect at the hands of Islamist terrorists, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially codified the terrorists' status as
legitimate members of a foreign “army” that, at some future date, could
conceivably enter into a treaty with the United States government.
To justify this outrage, the Supreme Court invoked a phony premise that it was
somehow ensuring that Americans, captured by al-Qa'ida members or their
allies, would receive reciprocal consideration. Yet, it is beyond absurd to
expect that people who clearly intend to wage and win their wars through
wanton brutality and cruelty would ever defer to such standards of behavior.
Worse yet, those countries that might be wavering in their commitment to
participation within the rules of the Geneva Convention suddenly have no incentive
to abide by any provision of it. If their own military members are now
guaranteed, by order of the United States Supreme Court, to be treated with
utmost consideration, regardless of their own actions towards Americans, why
should they then be willing to accept the constraints of the treaty if so
doing accrues no further benefit to them?
In short, the ability of the American government to protect the interests of
its own citizenry and military personnel is directly tied to its willingness
to use its power as leverage against those nations and forces that seek to do harm to
the American nation and its vital interests.
With every effort to restrict and undermine that ability, the American Left --
a Liberal Leftist cabal that now undeniably includes the likes of Arizona Senator John
McCain and other socalled "moderate " Republicans, as well as Democratic Party Liberals
-- increases the likelihood that America’s terrorist enemies will abuse and kill
captured American servicemen and women with impunity.
McCain and his cohorts certainly know this. Thus, they cannot be excused, on
the basis of ignorance, from such seditious collaboration with the enemies
of America.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
The American Political & Cultural Left:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
The Fifth Column -- America's Internal Enemies:
Disloyalty, Subversion, Sedition, & Treason
American Politics & Political Competition
The American Political System:
Politics & Government in the U.S.A.
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
Page Three
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War & Peace in the Real World
Page Two
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Terrorism & American Homeland Security
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security
U.S. National Security Strategy
Liberalism Versus Conservatism in American Politics
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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES:
COMPETING SYSTEMS OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Conservatism
Traditional Conservatism: Questions & Answers
Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status
Constitutional Conservatism: American & British
Liberalism
Classical Liberalism: Intellectual Foundations
Classical Liberalism: Conservative Liberalism
Manchester Liberalism & Social Darwinism
Modern Social "Liberalism": Statist "Liberalism"
Radical & Totalitarian Ideologies
Radicalism, Utopianism, & Totalitarianism
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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