MSM Over-Reach on Gitmo Memo

Fire of Liberty

Now while NPR, the New York Times, CNN and the rest of the MSM are shouting from the rooftops that the White House has backed away from its stand on enemy combatants/terrorists being held at Gitmo by giving them Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention the fail to read the fine print on the memo coming out of the Pentagon. Thankfully, National Review Online's Andy McCarthy is on the job and points out over at The Corner that the White House hasn't changed course but has codified the policy that has been in existence after September 11th, which means they're given the minimal rights like: being treated humanely and can't be tried under the military tribunals as the are currently structured.(I mentioned how the tribunals can be fixed on July 1, 2006 in the post titled Supreme Court Should Interpret Laws not Make Them). If you want to read McCarthy's well thought out argument on this memo and the MSM's over-reading on the memo then check out the post here. I just hope that we never relent on our fight against the terrorists by bending to the whims of the MSM, liberals/ACLU crowd and the world community by treating the terrorists as POW. From the looks of McCarthy's post, I'd say we're holding firm but maybe we could handle the release of such news better. For me, the best advice I can give to our soldiers is to kill the terrorists/enemy combatants in the battle-zone so we don't have to worry about them, it might hurt us in the intelligence gathering field but it sure beats this. Ralph Peters, a retired officer in the US Army, offers a more extensive argument on why it's better to kill the terrorists in his most recent column in the New York Post. So check out both of these interesting pieces to understand what our soldiers and the civilian leaders have to deal with while prosecuting terrorists in the wilds of the world as well as in the West.