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No Military Solution

By lex, on January 5th, 2009

I guess that depends upon what your problem is.

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Counter-point: (mumble, mumble) something about Guantanamo.

Which will no doubt have its doors flung open in 15 days. Or so.

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January 5th, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: GWOT, Military

11 comments to No Military Solution

  • Wilko
    January 5, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    See. We do more than blow stuff up (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

    “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”…..Alexis de Tocqueville .

  • STEVEC
    January 5, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    We ought to end Gitmo if for no other reason than to end the kow-towing to the inmates….the more I hear about the food menu’s, the medical bene’s, the gloves-to-touch the Koran, a nice new Koran for each new attendee, arrows towards Mecca, the giant flat screen TV, . . . you name it, the sicker I get.

    Put them all in back of a C-17, heck, palletize them, and drop them off in their home countries . . . . from 35,000 feet. And whoever set up the rules for this embarrassment should be fired.

  • Babs
    January 5, 2009 at 11:28 pm

    I too wonder about our preoccupation with the inmate’s home countries. Drop them by parachute into the country in which they were born. Let them sort it out…

  • virgil xenophon
    January 6, 2009 at 1:57 am

    Babs/

    The more I read you the more I keep thinking about that marriage proposal–have to become a Mormon, tho.

    Parachuting is fine idea, except I would do a “survival island” number. Drop them all onto an isolated isle and drop food and guns and lots of extra ammo and let them scramble for the top of the totem pole until one man left standing–then un-cage the unfed Kodiak’s.

  • Byron
    January 6, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Nope. Pack them all into luxury Lears. Give them all very expensive suits, cigars, gifts. Tell them we are very sorry. Hell, give ‘em a bunch of cash. When they get off the Lear in Buttsmellistan, shake all their hands and kiss their cheek just like they’re friends of ours.

    Betcha they’re all dead in less than a week.

  • Liz
    January 6, 2009 at 11:52 am

    And Byron wins! I’d give ‘our friends’ a day at best. Let them try to convince their cohorts we weren’t sincere and they aren’t double agents. Problem solved.

  • RetRsvMike
    January 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm

    well, except for that whole bit about “even though they don’t meet the criteria of Geneva III for qualifying as EPW, they STILL are accorded the treatment thereof pending status determination by competent tribunal”, and there is still the general prohibition against forced re-patriation….

    …but other than that, i tend to personally lean towards Byron’s version of a solution to the mumble mumble counter-point.

    AS FOR the original point being made: amen, this is how it has been with our forces since the beginning.

  • virgil xenophon
    January 6, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    I STILL vote for my Kodiak’s. (SULK & MOPE)

  • Humble1310
    January 6, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    Great pictures. That linked interview is great. I’m surprised it didn’t urge us to just go out and buy everyone a puppy.

    FTR: Byron’s is cleverest, but I think virgil’s would be more entertaining.

  • JAS
    January 6, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    Terrific pictures and interview. Love Byron’s idea. Couldn’t we turn Gitmo into a reality TV show, along the lines of turning them all loose on a desert island with five idiot commentators and their camera crews and enough food and water for either the TV crews or the terrorists – but not both? Whoever survives the longest wins a ride back to their nation of origin. Works for me.

  • unkawill
    January 7, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    ” Buttsmellistan” Heh, and true.
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