I happen to completely agree with Pete (#59) on one point – we need to stop piously condemning the human rights recoerds of any other country ever again and just stay out of everyone else’s business!
It quite honestly is no skin off our nose if we let the rest of the world slaughter each other, just as long as they leave us alone! Quite honestly, if we started treating our “captives” like our men are treated when they are captured all we would have to do is start cutting off their heads in front of a video camera and sending it out to every major news organization.
The U.S. is not the rest of the world’s police – let them do whatever the hell they want! It would be much more benficial for us to have the rest of the world’s RESPECT and not worry about having their “FRIENDSHIP” – which most of them conveniently forget about when it suits their own purpose anyway. Let them call us a “bully” – sticks and stones – they are going to do it anyway so they might as well have a legitimate reason for it! Some inflated sense of moral highground is just making us look like the rest of the world’s freaking doormat!
