McCain Won, Your Guy Lost – Now Do What’s Best for America
The one thing this analysis misses is the one point where HRC, Obama and McCain agree: closing Gitmo and putting terrorists into the civil courts system. That is a system of ‘adversarial justice’ of evidence presented to defense consul and of lawyers who are more than sympathetic to terrorists, like Lynne Stewart. One lawyer was able to allow the ‘Blind Sheikh’ to determine the power structure inside the Muslim Brotherhood but in exterior operations, like its Islamic Jihad unit, from a US jail. I have a problem with those picked up on the battlefield subject to the Laws of War being shifted into the civil arena.
In case it has missed the attention of a few folks, those fighting outside the Laws of War and Law of Nations are outside the protection of the civil law. We offer such crimes inside the civil law so that individuals who are captured via civil means, under civil review or who give themselves up have a chance to clear their names. You do not *get* that during wartime. One Repbulican President did promulgate military rules of war that adhered to these concepts and they were kept for over 30 years, and those acting in the manner of terrorists were directly addressed. He saw his Executive power coming from the Head of State and Commander of the Armies and the Navies as giving him authority to act for the Nation against those that place themselves outside of the structure of the law and treaties. That President was Abraham Lincoln and I find it difficult to believe that the nominee from his party will turn his back on his wisdom this election year. I have always viewed Lincoln as honestly understanding his powers and what that means as a responsibility by the Executive to protect the Nation when those caught waging Private War are run across in an active combat area. But then I view him as civilized in this realm, unlike the current crop of candidates.
So please do worry about how Iran and NoKo will see the US, but realize that all three want to put our ability to find such agents as are against the US in extreme danger, and that a short time after closing Gitmo begins the CIA, NSA, DIA and other INTEL agencies will start to find their networks of agents and resources disappear and we will be starting back at square one. If you vote for Sen. McCain or either of the others, address your responsibility in this and start to prepare the ‘damage control’ now, for these candidates will put this Nation at risk in their views and there is no *better* amongst them when ignoring the responsibilities of the President under the Law of Nations and Laws of War to protect this country. Because your vote for any of these is a vote for that and the responsibility in a representative democracy is upon those casting the votes. And to not cast one means that you have rejected your responsibility to the Nation, also.
Just like these Presidential candidates.
