Power Line has comments from Dr. Brian Byer "Our readers speak" discussing the treatment of prisoners at Gitmo. Dr. Byer makes a very weak comparison of the treatment of prisoners with the terrible things that Seals, Rangers and other go through in training. The comparison fails when one realizes that the US service members who get this traiing are volunteers. They volunteer for this abuse. They can leave and they know that it will be over at a defined time and they will be out having beer and steak telling war stories. The prisoners at Gitmo (and other places) do not have that luxury.
Aside from the weak comparison, what is being done at Gitmo is legal. It may not be nice. It is certainly not as bad as our enemies such as the North Vietnamese, North Koreans, Germans and Japanese inflicted on us. The people at Gitmo are terrorists who do not value human life, except as guided bombs, are part of the organization that attacked us. They are getting better than they deserve. In fact, we should offer to return many of them to their home countries and see how many takers we have. The treatment they are getting at Gitmo is much better than the treatment they would receive if returned home. I understand that some can't be sent home because a federal judge has decreed that we can't return them if they might get tortured at home.
For all of Osama's fellow travelers in the press and the Congress, remember it is the US that was attacked. It is our citizens who were murdered. The killers, if not checked would gladly add thousands more Americans to the body count. I have absolutely no sympathy for them. I expect our soldiers to stay within the law, but I do not expect them to love and coddle these killers.
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