Doesn't this excerpt (replace America with Australia) perfectly encapsulate our current 'human rights' confusion as articulated by the Greens/progressive/left-wing fools in government?
So many "rights" have been conjured up out of thin air that many people seem unaware that rights and obligations derive from explicit laws, not from politically correct pieties. If you don't meet the terms of the Geneva Convention, then the Geneva Convention doesn't protect you. If you are not an American citizen, then the rights guaranteed to American citizens do not apply to you.
That should be especially obvious if you are part of an international network bent on killing Americans. But bending over backward to be nice to our enemies is one of the many self-indulgences of those who engage in moral preening.
But getting other people killed so that you can feel puffed up about yourself is profoundly immoral. So is betraying the country you took an oath to protect.
Adam Smith many years ago said that showing undue mercy towards criminals actually heaps cruelty onto their victims. Unfortunately most of our 'leaders' will not learn the truth of this adage until something happens to them or theirs; God grant that this is not so!
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