Jason Monastra

My life and thoughts out on the web

What is this?  In the LA Times, Tim wrote about the emerging perspective of some our far left friends that Donald should be brought up war crimes due his decision to allow techniques that have bordered on torture.  Well before I go off on the tangent that is sure to make me no friends, I will start with - are you kidding?  Prosecute a world leader on allowing the gathering of intelligence information that is combating people that want to kill us.   HMMMMM…..does that sound strange to anyone else.  That must be one of the craziest things I have heard.  People in leadership make decisions all of the time, and they cannot be thinking of a war crimes tribunal every time they make a hard decision on meeting head on with group of free radicals that are set on destroying us.

Torture….hate to say it and no I am not a war veteran and I have no experience.  But did anyone realize that the “rule book” are liberal friends and the EU would have us play by is the not the rules the rest of the world plays with.  People need information, and yes sometimes that information is garnered in ways that are not what people want to read about on the front page, but that information is critical to establishing strategies that safeguard us against the enemy.  The enemy is elusive and well equipped, fluid in their attacks and has no morale boundaries.  When killing children, pregnant women, and innocent people do not make these people blink an eye - I cannot see how employing all methods to extract information is wrong.  Yes, a blanket approach to where the tactics are used as a first form of interrogation -  I can see the issues with that.  But in certain circumstances, I can also see the methods as being needed.  Now some will say, how do we regulate?  WE DON’T.  Wouldn’t it be nice to hold a consensus every-time we thought about interrogating someone.  We do not have that luxury.  Intelligence and counter-intelligence is gathered in real time without time for political interference.  We place the best people in charge to allow them to make the decisions as they see fit.  We trust and we vote…but we do not micro-manage and we certainly to do look at condemning our leaders for methods that might be considered harsh by world standards.

The world would love to see us go down in flames.  Our liberal friends seem to be on the same page as Hugo Chavez and our friends in Iran and N.Korea.  If we left the running of this country to them, we would be deflated in a matter of years to nothing more than a dumping ground for world issues, free citizenship with no accountability, and a socialist government that takes everything and distributes it equally.  Not sure if anyone has ever looked around…..but nothing is equal.  In the good ole liberal socialist movement, the leaders would be rich and the people would be poor….no middle class at all.

Off my soap box for a minute and no to charges for our leaders.  This is no Stalin or Hitler.  Get in line, vote your decision and if you want change - elect someone else.