Congress should stop backseat driving.

Those American soldiers who were brutally
tortured, mutilated, stuffed full of explosives
and left at the side of the road.....precisely where
were their Geneva Convention rights?

To treat terrorists like a recognized, uniformed
nation is ludicrous. To believe that terrorists
will ever respect the Geneva Convention is
naive. To conduct this battle like a law enforcement
operation and handcuff our own military because
our sensibilities are offended by the methods they
use to protect us is downright foolish.

At what point is our nation going to wake up and
realize that war just isn't pretty? The methods
and people we have to deal with to prosecute this
war are not the same as WWII or even Vietnam
so comparisons are useless. It is a whole new ballgame
and we have to let our military and intelligence
services do their jobs.

If folks really knew what methods of interrogation
were used in WWII, they would faint dead away.
But it worked, didn't it? The "Greatest Generation"
sure got their hands dirty and thank God for it.

When you look at the fact that fewer Congressman have
served in the military than ever before in history, it is
no wonder there is a disconnect between the fantasyland
many of our elected officials seems to be marinating in
versus the reality of day-to-day military operations
around the world. And visiting for a week or so does not
make one an expert.

Let the military do their jobs, give them the tools and
support to do it, stay the hell out of the way and stop
backseat driving.