DEMOCRATS STILL DON’T GET IT! and some Republicans lack common sense. . .

Big debate over how we treat captured terrorists. Democrats very concerned about how foreign nations view American policies, and a few idiot Republicans self-righteously taking the high road, going to earn the world’s good opinion.

“Gee, mom, everybody else does it.” If everybody else jumped off Brooklyn Bridge, would you do it, too?

Where are your heads? Never mind. We’ve got a pretty good idea.

Listen up, fellas. Look into the nearest mirror and repeat after me: “My job is to take care of America and the American people.”

Next: “The American people don’t care what those foreign nations think. They just want to be safe.”

Next: “The American people know the difference between soldiers in uniform and terrorists who capture and torture their prisoners, then dump them beside the road.”

Next: “The American people know that our side needs interrogation ability to keep us safe at home, and that Congress is keeping us from getting it.”

Next: “There’s an election coming up. And after that, there’s another one, and another one.”

Next: “I’d better start paying attention to what the American people think.”

Common sense tells us that we don’t want to mess with the international laws that keep our uniformed military safe if captured. However, there’s nothing in the world to keep us from writing new legislation, defining terrorists and what we can do when we capture them, and grandfathering in the ones we already have. We can certainly define the threat to America, and why we have to do what we have to do. We can detail the atrocities these terrorist commit, and their goals and aims that put them outside the normal bounds, and the fact that they belong to no country, no government, no uniformed service, and answer to no leader, with no rules. We can limit ourselves and require that they do the same, but recognize that they may not. We can also state that they are not citizens of America or any other particular country, and have declared Jihad, and are thus subject to the rules of their own Jihad, and are not, when captured, granted the rights of citizenship in the country they would destroy.

This solves the problem by documenting the class which they themselves have created for themselves. It is they who have removed themselves from civilization, not we have have removed them. They created their own special class of rights, within Jihad – which does not authorize the peculiar brand of torture which they employ. They blaspheme their own religion; and we sully freedom when we offer its benefits to those who are undeserving of it.

It’s time all of you stopped thinking of your political gain and started thinking of what is best for the people you represent. America was more respected when Roosevelt sent the marines after that American than it was before 9/11, and it is more respected today. If you want to know what caused the “poor opinion” of America held by many in the world, you have only to look to the media, and to the shenanigans they report, to their negative stories, to the leaks from your ranks, to the disrespect you show to the President, to the country, and to us, to find out why there is so much negative opinon.

And another thing, didn’t your mother ever tell you you can’t buy friends? Bring our money home. All of those creeps in Cuba, taking our money and throwing stones, should convince you that we’ve done enough. Bring our money home. Pass an act defining the terrorists, terrorism, and giving our interrogators what the President says they need. Do your jobs.