Sigh.....found in a column from a right winger in the local paper.

This clown in the community newspaper has a "column" which is essentially comprised of his one sentence opinions made from the top of his head, without any type of elaboration or factual substantiation. In his most recent column, he included the following statement:

"The Geneva Convention protected people who obeyed the Geneva Convention, not those who didn't--as terrorists today certainly do not."

Several sentences down, he then states as follows:

"According to (18th Century English author) Samuel Johnson, 'The true measure of a man is how he treats someone else who can do him absolutely no good.'"

Putting this guy's ridiculously flawed understanding of the Geneva Convention and apparent belief that it is not a current and actively binding treaty, does anyone else see the gross hypocrisy and contradiction here?

Everybody knows the US "doesn't torture". That's why the debate centers on whether or not the interrogation tactics used by US forces constitute torture. So even if the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to the Taliban or Al Qaeda prisoners, we still have promised not to torture *anybody*.

The guy isn't just a hypocrite but intellectually lazy as well.

Sadly, this guy and his audience who yell "YEAH!" out loud while reading it will miss such a fine distinction....